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Kara Walker

Posted inArt

Reflecting on the Mistakes I’ve Made as an Art Critic

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney May 29, 2020May 30, 2020

Art critic Seph Rodney considers on his reviews during the last few years and what he may have gotten wrong and why.

Posted inOpinion

Kehinde Wiley, Wangechi Mutu, and Kara Walker Upstage the Monuments Debate

Avatar photo by Ulrich Baer January 15, 2020January 15, 2020

With recent monumental commissions, the artists focus on the imagination’s role in accounting for the past.

Posted inArt

Refreshing Stories Told Through the Collection of a Regional Museum

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney November 1, 2019November 6, 2019

The Tang Teaching Museum attempts to make itself new through an exhibition that employs a variety of ways to elaborate and convey narratives.

Posted inNews

Kara Walker Satirizes Britain’s Public Sculptures with a Monument to Trans-Atlantic Slavery

Avatar photo by Dorian Batycka October 7, 2019October 7, 2019

Kara Walker upends the Tate Modern with a massive fountain, renewing the debate about the nature of public monuments in the heart of violent empire.

Posted inArt

Kara Walker’s Monument to Monstrousness

by Michael Glover October 5, 2019October 8, 2019

Can the enduring presence of such monuments among us still have the power to reinforce deep-rooted prejudices, by the very fact that they have simply not gone away?

Posted inBooks

Artists Who Have Addressed Sexual Trauma Since the 1970s

Avatar photo by Jennifer Remenchik September 3, 2019September 4, 2019

In Against Our Will, Vivien Green Fryd makes a convincing case for the need to examine artworks through the lens of sexual trauma, a violent reality that unfortunately spans across gender, ethnicity, race, and time.

Posted inArt

The Pursuit of Art, 2018

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli December 29, 2018January 1, 2019

The creation and interpretation of art remains an anchor and a refuge, a sanctuary for vanishing ideals.

Posted inArt

Kara Walker Invites You to a Public Hanging

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli December 22, 2018December 22, 2018

Walker’s installation “Virginia’s Lynch Mob” evokes a latter-day Saturnalia, turning the world upside-down.

Posted inArt

An Outline of Over 200 Years of Silhouettes

by Claire Voon August 14, 2018August 15, 2018

The oldest object on view documents an ugly reality, showing on brown paperboard one of the earliest known images of a slave in the US, accompanied by a bill of sale.

Posted inArt

Kara Walker, Barbara Kruger, and Charles Atlas Dissect Modernity

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel May 7, 2018

The Hammer Museum has displayed the three video installations together for the first time.

Posted inArt

Kara Walker’s Show is a Painful, Necessary Reminder That US Culture Wars Never Ended

by Jessica Bell Brown October 12, 2017October 13, 2017

Walker’s drawn and collaged images depicting haunting scenes of abuse and violence refuse to let us look away from America’s bloody past and present.

Posted inArt

15 Questions About Kara Walker’s Latest Exhibition

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney October 2, 2017

Who is made whole by Walker’s decontextualized images of violence correlated with race, gender, sex, and with chattel slavery and the social practices devolving from that historical circumstance?

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