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For the second iteration of Double Feature, three films by the French artist and poet Tarek Lakhrissi is on view. Through text, film, installation, an

Go-go dancer in the gallery? Art and performance blend in a new Walker exhibit Walker Art Center brings performers into the gallery for its new show "The Paradox of Stillness." So we asked both our art and dance critics to weigh in.  By Alicia Eler, Sheila Regan, Star Tribune critics May 18, 2021 — 10:34am Text size Copy shortlink: They say good things come to those who wait, but what if waiting is part of the idea in the first pla...

JACK PIERSON’S SILVER JACKIE looks like nothing much: a rickety little postage stamp of a stage, just a raised platform made by the artist himself, and he says he’s no carpenter. (“Those early stage pieces I did myself—and I’m not a woodworker—so they have a real slapdash quality.”) Behind the stage, there’s a silver Mylar curtain that I can’t pry apart from my memories of 1970s Christmas decorations. It looks cheap; the materials are cheap. This sort of bedraggled, taped-tog...