{"id":28514,"date":"2016-05-14T16:30:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T23:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=28514"},"modified":"2016-05-14T16:30:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T23:30:59","slug":"martin-friedman-visonary-director-of-walker-art-center-dies-at-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2016\/05\/14\/martin-friedman-visonary-director-of-walker-art-center-dies-at-90\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Friedman Visonary Director of Walker Art Center Dies at 90"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>Martin Friedman Visonary<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/14\/arts\/design\/martin-friedman-whose-vision-shaped-walker-art-center-dies-at-90.html?smid=fb-share\"> Director of Walker Art Center Dies at 90 <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.walkerart.org\/magazine\/2016\/martin-friedman-obituar\">Walker Art Org &#8211; obit <\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1aFriedMartinCage-e1463267316946.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1aFriedMartinCage-e1463267316946.jpg\" alt=\"1aFriedMartinCage\" width=\"550\" height=\"391\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28515\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(<a href=\" http:\/\/www.walkerart.org\/magazine\/2014\/john-cage-in-minneapolis\">Martin Friedman and John Cage <\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During his nearly four-decade relationship with the Walker Art Center, composer John Cage visited Minneapolis numerous times. As Walker director emeritus Martin Friedman recalls, these visits often veered toward the unexpected\u2014fitting for an artist whose name is closely associated with the musical concept of Indeterminacy\u2014from Sunday-morning mushroom hunting on a church lawn to a late-night reading of James Joyce with sculptor Tony Smith.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\t< \n\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1aMarcelMartin1965-e1463267798118.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1aMarcelMartin1965-e1463267798118.jpg\" alt=\"1aMarcelMartin1965\" width=\"550\" height=\"559\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28516\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMarcel Duchamp and Martin Friedman 1965 <\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>See Slideshow<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/twincities\/news\/2016\/05\/09\/walker-art-center-director-martin-friedman-dies.html#g1\"> photos here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/twincities\/news\/2016\/05\/09\/walker-art-center-director-martin-friedman-dies.html#g6\">with Ellsworth Kelly <\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>Martin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1aFriedmanVincent-e1463267962508.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1aFriedmanVincent-e1463267962508.jpg\" alt=\"1aFriedmanVincent\" width=\"475\" height=\"607\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28517\" \/><\/a> and Vincent Price. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Friedman Visonary Director of Walker Art Center Dies at 90 Walker Art Org &#8211; obit (Martin Friedman and John Cage ) During his nearly four-decade relationship with the Walker Art Center, composer John Cage visited Minneapolis numerous times. As Walker director emeritus Martin Friedman recalls, these visits often veered toward the unexpected\u2014fitting for an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2016\/05\/14\/martin-friedman-visonary-director-of-walker-art-center-dies-at-90\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Martin Friedman Visonary Director of Walker Art Center Dies at 90&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}