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‘Walker, Texas Ranger’ Star Was 86

‘Walker, Texas Ranger’ Star Was 86

Published by Daniella Wilson

Chuck Norris, the martial arts champion and karate school teacher who jumped fist- and feetfirst into stardom with 1980s action movies like Missing in Action and the long-running CBS drama Walker, Texas Ranger, has died. He was 86. Norris died suddenly Thursday in Hawaii after being hospitalized, his family announced in a statement. “He lived his life with faith, purpose, and an unwavering commitment to the people he loved. Through his work, discipline, and kindness, he inspired millions around the world and left a lasting impact on so many lives,” they said. “While our hearts are broken, we are deeply grateful for the life he lived and for the unforgettable moments we were blessed to share with him. The love and support he received from fans around the world meant so much to him, and our family is truly thankful for it. To him, you were not just fans, you were his friends.” They noted that they “would like to keep the circumstances private … please know that he was surrounded by his family and was at peace.” …

Every Copy of Our Spring Issue Comes with a Print by Kara Walker

Every Copy of Our Spring Issue Comes with a Print by Kara Walker

Published by Jenni Sidey

When a monument to Confederate General Stonewall Jackson was decommissioned in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2021, curator Hamza Walker managed to get ahold of it and transported it to a warehouse in New Jersey. The hefty monument’s move was no small feat, legally or logistically. But once it arrived, he offered it to the artist Kara Walker (no relation), inviting her to do with it as she pleased at a foundry in upstate New York.  Walker has been deftly probing the dark sides of American history since the 1990s, transforming its iconography until it reveals the violence too often lurking underneath. She approached the Jackson monument similarly, recombining its parts to form Unmanned Drone (2023), a 12-foot statue melding the general with his horse, named Little Sorrel. The sculpture is on view through May 3 at the Brick in LA, where Hamza Walker is director, in a show called “Monuments,” co-presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. Amid federal initiatives to restore Confederate monuments to public view, Walker’s powerful retort renders at least one reversion …

Walker calls time on England career four caps short of century

Walker calls time on England career four caps short of century

Published by Sam Flores

March 10 : Kyle Walker hung up his England boots on Tuesday, four matches shy of a landmark 100 caps, bringing the curtain down on a 14-year international career that saw him twice finish as a European Championship runner-up. The 35-year-old right back announced his retirement from international football three months ahead of the World Cup, ending a journey that began with his debut in 2011 and included five major tournaments with the Three Lions. The defender last pulled on an England shirt in a friendly against Senegal in June and was notably absent from recent squads for World Cup qualifiers despite playing 27 Premier League games for Burnley this season. “After more than a decade representing my country, I have decided to retire from international football. Playing for England has always been the biggest honour of my career and something I will always be proud of,” Walker wrote on Instagram. “Thank you to every teammate, coach, manager, the 12th man, and everyone behind the scenes who has been part of the journey. Every roar …

How To Be a Better Walker

How To Be a Better Walker

Published by Jenni Sidey

For me, the most pleasant walking clothes are giveaway Gildan t-shirts that I picked up for free at some event, shin-length, Sandler-esque basketball shorts, and sneakers that are absolutely beat to hell but hug my feet better than the clean ones. For colder weather, designate a few hoodies, zip-ups, and beanies that you don’t mind getting lightly battered by the elements, and throw those on when you’ve got a walk-sized hole in your schedule. Then, you can get creative with the lower body accoutrements. Some people like shorts in any weather, maybe with some performance leggings underneath when it’s too chilly to have the gams fully out. Others prefer sweatpants or joggers, a perfectly acceptable choice for this style of walk, which is about physical and mental maintenance over getting a fit off. For sunny weather, you’re also going to need some sunglasses, preferably some that are well-worn and comfortable, so as to not be distracting. A baseball cap is the ultimate walk accessory, though, which serves many functions. The first is obviously to keep …

Nexstar lays off local TV journalists including Glen Walker, Lu Parker

Nexstar lays off local TV journalists including Glen Walker, Lu Parker

Published by Sam Flores

Nexstar Media Group is slashing personnel from its TV stations, including several on-air veterans at Los Angeles outlet KTLA. Glen Walker and Lu Parker, anchors of KTLA’s late morning and midday newscasts, are out along with meteorologist Mark Kriski, according to people briefed on the moves not authorized to speak publicly. Kriski had been with KTLA since 1991, while Walker has been at the station’s anchor desk since 2010. Parker joined KTLA in 2005. A representative for Nexstar said the company does not comment on personnel issues, adding it is “taking steps necessary to compete effectively in this period of unprecedented change.” The layoffs are part of a company-wide cost reduction across Nexstar’s stations. The Irving, Texas-based media giant, which recently agreed to a $6.2-billion merger with station group Tegna, is looking for savings as traditional TV viewing declines and puts pressure on ad revenue as consumers continue to move to video-streaming platforms. Television station groups have been lobbying the government to lift restrictions that limit them to 39% coverage of U.S households. They say …

MOCA LA Names 2025 Acquisitions, Including Monumental Kara Walker Work

MOCA LA Names 2025 Acquisitions, Including Monumental Kara Walker Work

Published by Jenni Sidey

An acclaimed Kara Walker sculpture, abstractions by beloved painters of the past and present, and a video about two lizards in Covid-era New York are among the 158 artworks acquired last year by the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, which revealed the newest pieces to enter its holdings on Tuesday. Fifty of the artists behind those works have never before seen their art acquired by MOCA, one of LA’s top museums. The Walker sculpture, Unmanned Drone (2023), is perhaps the most high-profile work of the bunch. It is currently on view in the exhibition “Monuments,” a co-production between MOCA and the Brick, and was created as a commission for the show. Formed from Confederate monuments whose pieces Walker reassembled, Unmanned Drone was named the most defining artwork of 2025 by ARTnews. While Unmanned Drone rises 13 feet into the air, it is not the biggest artwork acquired by MOCA in 2025. That would be Olafur Eliasson’s 40-foot-tall 2024 installation Observatory for seeing the atmosphere’s futures, which was created for a MOCA show and acts …

Former Dodgers star Walker Buehler signs with San Diego Padres

Former Dodgers star Walker Buehler signs with San Diego Padres

Published by Sam Flores

Walker Buehler has signed with the San Diego Padres after the right-hander spent the first eight seasons of his major league career with their archrivals, the Dodgers. Buehler was in the Padres’ clubhouse Tuesday morning after agreeing to a minor league deal with an invitation to big league camp. “Yeah, it feels a little weird,” Buehler told reporters in Arizona after pulling on a brown and gold uniform. “I imagine five years ago it would have felt a lot more weird, but this is a crazy game and this is a great opportunity for me.” The 31-year-old Buehler said he will “come in and try and make the team and contribute in any way I can. I’m a starter, and I want to start, so I’m here to try and make the rotation.” Buehler spent last season with Boston and Philadelphia, which signed him in late August after the Red Sox released him. Buehler struggled in Boston, but looked good enough during his brief time with the Phillies to generate interest from the Padres and …

Walker Art Center Will Close Tomorrow for ICE Protest

Walker Art Center Will Close Tomorrow for ICE Protest

Published by Jenni Sidey

The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis will close Friday, January 23, during the Day of Truth and Freedom protest, a state-wide action organized in response to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) presence in Minnesota communities. Organizers of the action, led by local labor unions and community organizations, have asked Minnesotans to mount a general strike by not working, spending money, or going to school on the day of the protest. The Walker is the largest organization so far to announce participation in the strike, joining over 300 small businesses, cultural institutions, and nonprofits that will shutter for the day. “This reflects our institutional values to center our community, support our staff, and to approach our work with care and safety in mind,” a representative for the Walker told Minnesota news organization Bring Me the News, which has been reporting on the upcoming strike. The museum will reopen on Saturday, January 24. Related Articles The Day of Truth and Freedom action comes in the wake of ICE’s Operation Metro Surge, which flooded Minneapolis-Saint Paul with …

52 Walker Quietly Becomes a David Zwirner Gallery

52 Walker Quietly Becomes a David Zwirner Gallery

Published by José Betancourt

When 52 Walker opened in Tribeca in 2021, it did so with unusual fanfare. The space, founded by Ebony L. Haynes under the umbrella of David Zwirner, was widely framed as a corrective gesture within the commercial gallery system: a Kunsthalle-style venue with an all-Black staff, full curatorial autonomy, and a mandate untethered from the usual pressures of artist representation. The New York Times hailed it as a rare experiment inside a mega-gallery structure, emphasizing both its symbolic and structural ambitions. Now, four years later, that experiment has quietly entered a new phase. Related Articles The Tribeca space known as 52 Walker is officially a David Zwirner gallery space. The change has already taken place, though it has not been publicly announced as such. As of this week, the gallery’s website lists the space as closed “for installation,” with no indication that its mandate has shifted. The most recent exhibition, a critically engaged presentation by Nicole Eisenman, was the final show at 52 Walker as a standalone brick-and-mortar project. The transition follows Haynes’s promotion last fall to a newly created …

Dead Ringers | Walker Mimms

Dead Ringers | Walker Mimms

Published by Jenni Sidey

The first time I saw a sculpture by Tatiana Trouvé, in an uncommonly dim gallery at a museum in Mougins, in southern France, I assumed that I had found three blankets stacked tidily on a chair, supporting a book. The piece was called The Guardian. It was, I would later learn, one of a series by that title. Other iterations include chairs or stools propping up stacks of suitcases, reading material, and the like, with certain items maybe wedged into the pile—a shoe, say. Here, it seemed, was an artist who arranges unassuming piles of stuff, like Damien Hirst or Tracey Emin used to do. If anything can be art, it has to be clever. Blankets? I passed. On my way back through I saw the trick. Those textiles that looked so fluffy and buoyant were in fact carved granite and marble. The stool was bronze, its rungs distressed in patina as if by years of heels. I’d been genuinely had, by some of the most impressive photorealism I had ever seen.  Trouvé’s craftsmanship is the …