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Open daily, 6 am–12 midnight The Walker Art Center is open Tuesday– KATHARINA FRITSCH AND Sunday; closed Mondays. Free for members HAHN/COCK and ages 0–18. Discounted admission with SPOONBRIDGE AND CHERRY tickets to Skyline Mini Golf. walkerart.org 612.375.7600 GARDEN RULES

Please don’t touch or climb on the sculp- tures, unless signs tell you it’s okay. Help us protect the art. No smoking or alcoholic HUNGRY? When does the ordinary become extraordi- Why not a fork? A giant ice cream cone, beverages. Picnicking is encouraged! nary? Towering nearly 25 feet over the park, a huge bag of fries—these are just a few of Esker Grove serves lunch, dinner, and the gigantic blue rooster is at once lifelike the ’ other works. Find out the story weekend brunch. Open Tuesday–Sunday. and completely unreal. (#6) behind the beloved fountain- Patio seating available. eskergrove.com Spoonbridge and Cherry on the labels in the 612.375.7542 park or at ArtGarden.org. (#19) FREE WI-FI

The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden unites two of ’s Connect to Walker&Garden. MARK MANDERS THEASTER GATES most cherished resources—its parks and its cultural life. Since opening in 1988, the Garden has welcomed millions of visitors, SEPTEMBER ROOM … BLACK VESSEL FOR A SAINT SHOP showcasing works from the Walker Art Center’s renowned collections of modern and in the setting of an Visit the Walker Shop. All proceeds urban park. The Garden is a partnership between the Walker TOURS support the Walker’s artistic and educa- and the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board, a national award- tional programs. shop.walkerart.org winning park system. Learn more on a guided tour: Saturdays and Sundays, 12 noon; Thursdays, 6 pm. Find fun facts and learn more about the at ArtGarden.org/map. Enter a fantastic space where the past and A of Saint Laurence, the patron saint SPECIAL EVENTS & PHOTOGRAPHY present, the familiar and unfamiliar meet, of librarians and archivists, welcomes us into SAVING where you’ll become—for a brief time—a a small, circular temple. The sculpture serves To rent spaces in the Minneapolis Sculpture WATER part of the ’s imagined room. (#27) as a sanctuary, a place open to all for gather- Garden, visit minneapolisparks.org or call SKYLINE MINI GOLF 612.230.6400. Professional photography is ing and reflection. (#12) At the center of the park is an welcome with an advance permit from the underground water collection Play a round on the rooftop (#45)! Open Park Board. tank, near the Spoonbridge EVA ROTHSCHILD May 16–September 29, Tuesday–Sunday. and Cherry. This feature helps Get tickets inside at the Walker’s Main SKY PESHER EMPIRE to water the garden and near- Lobby desk. #WalkerArtCenter by sports fields and also keeps Follow us @WalkerArtCenter. more than 4 million gallons Join the Walker as a new member and get of runoff out of the storm free mini-golf tickets. Membership starts FLORA sewers each year, thus reduc- at $5/month. walkerart.org/membership & FAUNA ing pollution in the Mississippi 612.375.7655 Throughout the Minneapolis River basin. MINNEAPOLIS Sculpture Garden, hundreds of native trees, shrubs, perennial In a subterranean chamber known as a The title Empire suggests a great power or SCULPTURE GARDEN OUTSIDE , and grasses not only “Skyspace,” a 16-foot opening frames a view a vast reach. Appearing both delicate and create a natural frame for the of the infinite sky above. Take a seat inside strong, this mammoth archway meets the & WURTELE art but also offer a thriving to experience nature at its most elemental. ground at 10 different points. Red, black, and habitat for birds, butterflies, You’ll find this artwork in the Wurtele Upper green—the colors disrupt the way our eyes UPPER GARDEN and other wildlife. This Garden. (#51) move across the form. (#22) dynamic ecosystem supports The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is a project the long-term stability of ©2019 Walker Art Center of the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis the site, which is one of the Learn more at ArtGarden.org/map. Updated June 2019 Park & Recreation Board. crown jewels of the city’s park KEY HENNEPIN AVE MINNEAPOLIS DOWNTOWN LORING INSIDE WALKER ART CENTER: ATM SCULPTURE GARDEN Restrooms MINNEAPOLIS PARK Restaurant/Bar 18 45 1 Kris Martin 24 For Whom ... 2012 Rapture 2001 Shop

2 Alene Grossman Memorial 25 Gary Hume Arbor and Back of Snowman 2001 Entrances 44 1992 26 Tony Cragg Parking Ramp P 46 3 Level Head 2007 47 Dawn Tree 1976 G 48 27 Mark Manders Bus Stop 52 4 Mark di Suvero September Room (Room 41 Arikidea 1977–1982 with Two Reclining Figures Mini Golf LYNDALE AVE S and Composition with 20 5 Magdalena Abakanowicz Long Verticals) 2017 28 Sagacious Head 6 53 and Sagacious Head 7 28 Lucio Fontana 21 50 51 1989–1990 Concetto Spaziale 25 “Natura” (Spatial Concept 23 27 6 Katharina Fritsch “Nature”) 1961 F Hahn/Cock 2013/2017 17 41 WALKER 29 E 7 Isamu Noguchi 24 26 43 Selections from The 41 22 ENTRANCE 49 Shodo Shima Stone Study Living Series 1989 7 1978 5 29 30 8 Robert Indiana Five Plates, Two LOVE 1966–1998 A Poles 1971 VINELAND PL 57 9 Barry Flanagan 41 55 31 Hare on Bell on Portland Amaryllis 1965/1968 8 Stone Piers 1983 56 6 33 32 Ellsworth Kelly 10 Pierre Huyghe Double Curve 1988 2 Wind Chime (after 42 35 40 “Dream”) 1997/2009 33 George Segal 19 54 (on view seasonally) Walking Man 1988 4 30 31 11 Installation inspired by 34 Henry Moore 34 3 36 P ’s 7000 Oaks Reclining Mother and C 1997 Child 1960–1961 41 13 32 12 Theaster Gates 35 Henry Moore Black Vessel for Standing Figure: Knife 37

a Saint 2017 Edge 1961 GROVELAND TERRACE

DUNWOODY BLVD 13 Sol LeWitt 36 Judith Shea X with Columns 1996 Without Words 1988 39 1 11 14 Deborah Butterfield 37 Cowles Pavilion and 10 Woodrow 1988 Regis Promenade 12 BRYANT AVE S 15 Philip Larson 38 Lazor Office B The Six Crystals 1988 FlatPak in the Garden 9 2005/2008 41 38 16 Alexander Calder 14 The Spinner 1966 39 Jim Hodges Untitled 2011 17 Jene Highstein Untitled 1987–1988 40 Two-way Mirror Punched WALKER WURTELE 18 Steel Hedge Labyrinth D Irene Hixon Whitney 1994–1996 41 Bridge 1988 TERRACES UPPER GARDEN 41 Ta-coumba Aiken and 19 Claes Oldenburg and Seitu Jones Shadows at the Coosje van Bruggen Crossroads 2019 44 Sol LeWitt Three x Four 48 54 Kinji Akagawa Spoonbridge and Cherry 7 Parts: 1985–1988 x Three 1984 Salute to Garden Seating, Reading, A. Eliza Winston 1985–1986 Thinking 1987/2017 B. Time 45 Skyline Mini Golf 20 Matthew Monahan Hephaestus 2013 C. Harriet Robinson Scott (seasonal) 49 Liz Larner 55 Nairy Baghramian D. Kirk Washington, Jr. E 16 X 2013 Privileged Points 21 Kcho 46 Claes Oldenburg 2011/2017 E. Mahpiya Wicasta S 15 Geometric Mouse—Scale A 50 Aaron Spangler La soledad (Cloud Man) (The Loneliness) 1969/1971 Bog Walker 2017 56 Scott Burton F. Siah Armajani N Seat-Leg Table 1986/1991 1999/2005 G. Untitled (Child) 47 Sol LeWitt 51 James Turrell W KENWOOD PKWY SKYLINE MINI GOLF Arcs from four corners, Sky Pesher, 2005 2005 57 Danh Vo 22 Eva Rothschild 42 Monika Sosnowska P Empire 2011 with alternating bands of Tombstone for Phùng Vo Untitled (gate) 2014 Tee up on the Walker terraces (#45) white and brown stone. 52 Alexander Calder from All your deeds shall Octopus 1964 23 Thomas Schütte 43 Martin Puryear All entrances to the Minneapolis and let the games begin! Open all The floor is bordered and in water be writ, but this Bronze Woman IV divided horizontally and in marble 2010 Gog & Magog (Ampersand) Sculpture Garden and Wurtele summer. Get tickets inside at the 53 Franz West 1998/2000 1987–1988 Upper Garden are accessible. Walker’s Main Lobby desk. vertically by a black stone Sitzwuste 2000 band 1988/2016