Talk:Walker Art Center

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Just tagged it now. Though I don't suspect it of copyright infringement (via copy-and-paste), it does feel like something found in a brochure from Walker. It needs to become an encyclopedia article Hayfordoleary 09:38, 27 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it is was a very marketing driven write up. As well, there was a long negative bit someone added (perhaps to offset the positive?). Hardly NPOV. As such I took to the task of rewriting most of it to NPOV. Among the changes:

Took out negative POV on the expansion.
Took out brocure-like write up on the programming. Instead, included all of the Walker's programming, instead of the small subset listed. Stripped most of the content since it was fairly uniformative.
Added more info on the campus, and the history of the Walker.
Removed the tag questioning the POV of the page.

These changes should make it NPOV. Vitaflo 17:45, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Peacock?[edit]

I was reading through the lead section of this article and came across this sentence:"The Walker is considered one of the nation's "big five" museums for modern art along with the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Hirshhorn.[1]" I think this would be considered as "peacock terms" ([1])...does anyone agree? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mctc2119 (talk • contribs) 16:26, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

please sign your comments, and add new topics to the bottom of the page. i had never heard of a 'big five' at least relating to museums, so i stuck a cn tag on the statement. shortly, someone came along with a source (click the [1] to see it. badmachine (talk) 03:51, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I saw the source, but all it says is "like the Walker, one of the nation's "big five" modern-art museums." So the problem here is when they say "considered" in the lead. Who is the one considering this statement? If it were to be rewordered then I'm sure it would be fine to leave in there, but if not I think it should be taken out. mctc2119) 11:29, 7 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

i would agree with this, as when you google big five art museums, every single result on the first two pages of google is someting published by the walker. 108.182.34.122 (talk) 22:28, 12 March 2013 (UTC)ziggiystartdust108.182.34.122 (talk) 22:28, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Campus[edit]

The article needs to include some information on the campus of Walker including overview of the old building, added info. on the expansion and what that brought to the Walker as well as architectural overviews of both. User:Dear Science10:45, 9 July 2009

History[edit]

This article needs to include information on the history of the Walker, going into how/why it was founded, I think, is an important thing to add. mctc2119 03:39, 12 July 2009.

Previous exhibitions[edit]

I'm going to be adding in a list of what they have had featured in their galleries before. I talked to some of the people at the walker and they said they'll be adding to the list in a month or so dating further back. I'll also be adding in some useful information for planning visitors.Kittenangel116 (talk) 20:54, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]