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The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden's 11 acres and more than 40 works, including Spoonbridge and Cherry, are open year-round at no charge.

The Minneapolis Pops Orchestra's free summer run at the Lake Harriet Bandshell is scheduled to begin late in June and continue into July.

The free Minneapolis Sculpture Garden at the foot of Lowry Hill draws visitors from across the region to a park many neighbors treat as routine.

Theaster Gates's "Black Vessel for a Saint" rewards the kind of slow, repeat visit that the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden's most photographed work, "Spoonbridge and Cherry," rarely gets.

Between its open sculpture garden, free gallery hours and a summer calendar of no-cost events, the Walker Art Center gives away enough of itself that Lowry Hill can treat it as a public square rather than an occasional splurge.

The summer festival pairs 150 artist booths with multiple performance stages.

The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden has drawn millions of visitors to the foot of Lowry Hill since it opened in 1988, and it still admits anyone free, every day.

The Lowry Hill Gallery, a contemporary art space founded by former Groveland Gallery director Andrea Bubula, opened in March 2026 at 1009 W. Franklin Ave. with shows by Minnesota and regional artists.

The long-running fair is reimagined along Lake of the Isles Parkway, a scenic new setting on the East Isles edge.

The Walker Art Center has treated graphic and industrial design as collectible art since its founding, a stance that dates to its first director and runs through its current in-house design studio.

The Walker Art Center's "Show & Tell: An Exhibition for Kids" runs through April 5, 2026, turning a set of galleries into a hands-on space built for children.

The Walker Art Center regularly gives gallery space to artists the wider public has not caught up to, hanging their work in the same seasons as established names.

Famous for its outdoor garden, the Walker is turning attention indoors with an exhibit drawn from its archive.

The famed New York experimental troupe headlines the museum's winter performance calendar.

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's "Spoonbridge and Cherry" has become Minnesota's unofficial calling card, an unusual fate for a piece of contemporary art.

The genre-crossing instrumentalist headlines an intimate evening in the Walker's winter season.

The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, free to enter and rebuilt with level paths in 2017, makes its collection of more than 40 works reachable for visitors of varying mobility.

Andrea Bubula, former director of Groveland Gallery, opened Lowry Hill Gallery at 1009 W. Franklin Ave. on March 7, 2026.

Snow turns the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden's familiar works quieter and stranger, and the off-season crowds thin to almost none.

The season's clown programming is less comedy than confrontation.

A November program co-presented with Northrop revives postmodern dance landmarks for one night.

The performance lineup makes room for speculative work reaching toward other futures.

The Walker Art Center, one of the most-visited contemporary art museums in the country, sits at the edge of Lowry Hill and draws about 700,000 visitors a year.

The Walker Art Center is showing Robert Rauschenberg's set and costumes for "Glacial Decoy," the Trisha Brown dance it commissioned and premiered in 1979, through May 24, 2026.

The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden runs on a partnership, dating to its 1988 opening, between the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board.

Lowry Hill Gallery, founded by former Groveland Gallery director Andrea Bubula, opened March 7, 2026, at 1009 W. Franklin Ave. to show Minnesota and regional artists.

The free Minneapolis Sculpture Garden and its Spoonbridge and Cherry have become the region's default backdrop for weddings and milestone photos.

Lynne Woods Turner's Portland exhibition traces its origin to a 1979 film of Trisha Brown's "Spanish Dance" performed at the Walker Art Center.

The Walker Art Center's 2025-26 performing arts season, which opened Sept. 13, runs from experimental clowning to jazz titans and a Wooster Group return after 25 years.

The Walker Art Center's live performances unfold largely in the McGuire Theater, a 385-seat hall that opened with the museum's 2005 expansion and is built for experimental work.

The Walker's galleries run on museum hours and charge admission, while the adjacent Sculpture Garden is free and open daily.

Water sprays from the base of the cherry's stem in Spoonbridge and Cherry, a detail Coosje van Bruggen designed to keep the fruit gleaming.

The Walker Art Center's form on the edge of Lowry Hill, from Edward Larrabee Barnes's 1971 building to the 2005 Herzog & de Meuron expansion, is treated as part of the museum's argument.

The two-day fair has anchored the neighborhood's summer arts calendar since 2000.

The Walker revives a beloved summer series scoring silent cinema in real time.

Decades after opening, the park beside the Walker continues to reinvent itself.

A summer gathering frames joy as a catalyst for community at the Walker's Wurtele Upper Garden.

The museum's habit of running multiple exhibitions keeps repeat visits worthwhile.

All summer, the Walker hosts free outdoor creativity sessions among the sculptures.

The artists behind Spoonbridge shaped how a generation sees public sculpture.
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