Found: A poster announcing fall exhibitions at the University Gallery, 1975.

Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Farewell Legacy Tour, 11/6/11, 7 pm, Walker Art Center

Long before British artist Banksy snuck his paintings onto the walls of several venerable art museums in New York, a pair of University of Minnesota students pulled a similar prank at the University Gallery. In the WAM collection of press clippings from 1940, I found a series of newspaper articles outlining the drama. The January 31, 1940 Star Tribune newspaper article states:

When not processing, researching, or blogging about the WAM archival collection, I try to take some time to visit other museums - which I did this afternoon to view the Walker Art Center's new exhibit, Graphic Design: Now in Production. The exhibit features the vast changes in design over the course of the past ten years.

To use a phrase first utilized by former University Gallery Director Ruth Lawrence in a report to the President in the 1940s, the WAM Files project staff recently met to make "appraisal of