Have you seen this massive artwork at the High yet? Artist Kara Walker works across media to address racial prejudice and inequality embedded in contemporary society. In her best known work, she uses silhouettes to create provocative imagery using a visual vocabulary dating to the antebellum era. Her installations satirize the false propriety of the slaveholding Old South, speaking directly to issues of race, identity, privilege and injustice in contemporary society. Walker employs racist stereo
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Have you seen this massive artwork at the High yet? Artist Kara Walker works across media to address racial prejudice and inequality embedded in contemporary society. In her best known work, she uses silhouettes to create provocative imagery using a visual vocabulary dating to the antebellum era. Her installations satirize the false propriety of the slaveholding Old South, speaking directly to issues of race, identity, privilege and injustice in contemporary society. Walker employs racist stereo
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Kunstmuseum Basel reveals a lesser-known aspect of Kara Walker’s prolific creative output: Her drawings. bit.ly/3ha3nTJ | Art Basel
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Kunstmuseum Basel reveals a lesser-known aspect of Kara Walker’s prolific creative output: Her drawings. bit.ly/3ha3nTJ | Art Basel
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Kara Walker
Kara Walker
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See how Kara Walker's powerful work came together in our galleries. | High Museum of Art, Atlanta
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See how Kara Walker's powerful work came together in our galleries. | High Museum of Art, Atlanta
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The World of Kara Walker
The World of Kara Walker
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Kara Walker’s Thought-Provoking Art
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Kara Walker’s Thought-Provoking Art
Nov 6, 2014
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Kara Walker - Interesting Facts About Artist Kara Walker
Nov 6, 2022
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Starting Out, Kara Walker — Art21
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Artist Kara Walker on her Domino Sugar Refinery installation
Jul 1, 2014
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New Catalog Shares Kara Walker’s Creative Journey With ‘Fortuna'
Jan 2, 2025
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Kara Walker's Art Shocks, Subverts and Scintillates
Mar 7, 2008
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Kara Walker discusses her subversive use of the traditional silhouette technique. “A lot of my work has been about the unexpected…that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time,” says the artist in our 2003 episode, “Stories.” “That kind of dilemma, that push and pull, is the underlying turbulence that I bring to each of the pieces that I make.” Watch→http://a21.tv/WalkerStories | Art21
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Kara Walker reflects on the state of the art world, imparting wisdom from her own experiences to the next generation of artists. "There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist," says Walker. "You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist." Watch → http://a21.tv/WalkerStartingOut | Art21
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Kara Walker: A Fortuneteller in the Land of ChatGPT
Sep 26, 2024
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Discover our latest exhibition, KARA WALKER: BACK OF HAND, which foregrounds Walker’s long-term engagement with language and text. Learn more and plan your visit! https://bit.ly/3Ub5QRI 📸: Oriana Koren | Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine
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La artista Kara Walker llega a la Argentina con una muestra que desafía el racismo y la memoria
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Masterpiece Story: Fons Americanus by Kara Walker
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Artist Kara Walker Will Premiere New Work at England’s Tate Modern as the 2019 Hyundai Commission
9 months ago
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Kara Walker Showed Me the Horror of American Life
Nov 12, 2017
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Kara Walker | Tate Modern
Feb 7, 2021
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Kara Walker | Art21 | Preview from Season 2 of "Art in the Twenty-First Century" (2003)
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Art History Monday-Kara Walker's African American (1998)
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Harvard Art Museums’ Kara Walker work on view
Mar 4, 2019
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The Artist's Voice: Kara Walker
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‘My work has always been a time machine looking backwards across decades and centuries to arrive at some understanding of my “place” in the contemporary moment.’ - Kara Walker Fons Americanus is a 13-metre tall fountain inspired by the Victoria Memorial outside Buckingham Palace. Created by Walker for the 2019 Hyundai Commission, it's one of the most ambitious works in the Turbine Hall to date.⁣ ⛲ Until 5 April 2020—don't miss it. http://bit.ly/366XHkQ In partnership with Hyundai Motor | Tate
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Kara Walker Speaks About Her Art
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Kara Walker: Rise Up Ye Mighty Race!
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Kara Walker - African American Art History
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Kara Walker Is No One’s Robot
Jun 27, 2024
NY TimesHilarie M. Sheets
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