Heart of Darkness

Trend alert at the Walker: Kaves R kool! Last summer, young gun Cameron Jamie set up one as part of his survey at the museum; now there’s Cavemanman, from Jamie’s illustrious elder, Thomas Hirschhorn. It’s a retreat of sorts, albeit a chaotic one, papered with pages from all sorts of philosophical treatises and lots of foil (an allusion, perhaps, to those who use the stuff to obscure the windows of their homes). As part of Heart of Darkness, Hirschhorn ’s cave is one of three installations that evoke, rather gloomily, either alternate realities, oddball utopias, or poetically individual spaces—take your pick. Ellen Gallagher and Edgar Cleijne imagine, via a film installation, magical lands peopled by dead Africans who never made it to America to become slaves; and Kai Althoff, an art-world darling who’s got some heavy German charisma going for him, constructs an elegiac “labyrinth” (call it a cousin to the cave) of loneliness. 612-375-7600; www.walkerart.org”