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A new exhibition at the Walker Art Center

 takes a closer look at the artwork that came out of the 1980s. 

that while it may be difficult for people who lived through the 1980s to believe this, but scholars are increasingly seeing the decade of Reaganomics, Iran-Contra, and the end of Studio 54 as pivotal in the art world.

Walker Art Center Curator Bart Ryan stands in front of David Hammons piece "How Ya Like Me Now?" The piece bears the marks of sledgehammers by young African Americans upset that the Reverend Jesse Jackson was portrayed as being white.

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The Walker Art Center presents a retrospective of artwork that came out of the tumultuous decade.

The art, love and politics of the 1980s

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