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Lowest Common Denominator: A Kara Walker Selfie Generator

by Mostafa Heddaya June 30, 2014July 6, 2014

If you enjoy obvious jokes about the way people interact with ubiquitous technological features, you’ll love sugarselfie.us, a new website that fights bad taste with worse.

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How Are They Keeping Rats Off Kara Walker’s Sugar Sculptures?

by Claire Voon June 10, 2014June 12, 2014

Kara Walker’s 75-foot-long, 35-foot-tall sculpture made of 160,000 pounds of sugar rests in the expansive, soon-to-be-razed Domino Sugar Refinery, surrounded by 15 five-foot-tall statues of boys coated in molasses and brown sugar. Where are all the sugar-seeking pests?

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Sugar Coat: On Oscar Murillo and Kara Walker

by Ryan Wong June 3, 2014June 6, 2014

In one of those useful coincidences of the New York art scene, two current exhibitions discuss global commerce and history, labor and money through one peculiar entry point: sugar.

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What Does Kara Walker’s Sugary Sphinx Tell Us?

by Hrag Vartanian May 9, 2014May 13, 2016

One of the season’s most anticipated art events will finally open to the public tomorrow. Kara Walker’s “A Subtlety,” aka the “Marvelous Sugar Baby,” is the renowned artist’s first public artwork.

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Strong Emotions Surround Historic Sugar Factory’s Future

by Allison Meier June 6, 2013June 6, 2013

The massive Domino Sugar Factory that faces the East River with its iconic yellow sign is expected to soon be dwarfed by towering skyscrapers. However, there are some supporters who are rallying to get public support to turn the old factory into a cultural center.

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