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SUNDAY PICK | At the Walker Art Center, a rare glimpse into Depression-era Minnesota life

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet

Courtesy Walker Art Center

Today, making a movie is as easy as pulling out your phone—but in the 1920s, moviemaking equipment wasn't something the average person carried around in his pocket. That's what makes the James Dimond Home Movie Collection so valuable: the Dimond family captured life in the Midwest between 1927 and 1935, including visits to Minnehaha Falls and Camden State Park. The movies are now in the collection of the Walker Art Center, where they are screening daily until September 16.

ART REVIEW | "This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s": The end of the world at the Walker Art Center

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet

Courtesy Walker Art Center

One way to understand This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s—a touring exhibit that opens at the Walker Art Center on June 30—is as the answer to a riddle. The riddle is this: if the story of art ended in the 1960s with the apotheosis of abstract expressionism and the immediately subsequent trip through the post-modern wormhole into a world where everything is art and nothing is art, why is contemporary art still so fun and fascinating today? The answer, implicitly suggests exhibition curator Helen Molesworth, lies in the decade she calls "the end of the 60s."

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MUSIC REVIEW | Rock the Garden 2012: The Hold Steady, Trampled By Turtles, Doomtree, tUnE-yArDs, and Howler on the hill

By Lindsay LaBarre, TC Daily Planet
Ryan Cutler

This year's Rock the Garden was rather local-heavy, so it seemed only natural that the local band that’s been creating quite the local buzz of late was first up on the bill. That band is Howler. I may be biased in saying this, but they are not to be underestimated by their age (which, mind you, is not that young at all). I’ve seen them once before at their Varsity Theater show and so I have a bit of a comparison point.

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WEDNESDAY PICK | Algorithmic sci-fi noir at the Walker Art Center

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet

Courtesy Walker Art Center

Several years ago I experimented with making short films—recording video and setting it to different soundtracks, varying the speed of the video to match the length of the audio tracks. In the process I made a fascinating discovery: no matter how I synced a video to a soundtrack, there would be moments of uncanny synchrony, moments I would never have believed could be coincidental if I hadn't just created the coincidence.

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SATURDAY PICK | Rock the Garden gets hyperlocal with the Hold Steady, Trampled By Turtles, Doomtree, Howler, and tUnE-yArDs

By Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet

Rock the Garden 2010. Photo by Jay Gabler.

Rock the Garden, the annual juggernaut concert held on the Walker Art Center lawn and co-presented with The Current, has always included at least one local band in its lineup, but this year, tUnE-yArDs' Merrill Garbus is the only act among the five without a significant local connection. Doomtree are from here (proudly), Howler are from here (grudgingly), Trampled By Turtles are from Duluth (of course they are), and New York's the Hold Steady are fronted by Edina-raised Craig Finn.

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