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...The RA’s poster image is Kara Walker’s etching of black hands hoisting a white ship out of the dark waters of the past. A swimmer escapes; on shore, tiny silhouettes represent slaver and enslaved....
...By contrast, Kara Walker’s large-scale ink drawing “The Origin of the World (Judged Art Competition)” (2022) depicts a woman at an easel, nude but for an artist’s beret, turning the tables by painting penises...
...Its legacy is Afro-Futurism: innovative sculptures and installations by contemporaries including visual artists Nick Cave, Kara Walker, Wangechi Mutu....
...Kara Walker gathered a similar set of associations in her 2014 “A Subtlety”, a giant all-white statue of a black woman in a sphinx-like pose erected in a doomed sugar factory in Brooklyn....
...Many of their sitters — Richard Avedon, David Hockney, John Waters, Kara Walker and others — are practised image-makers; they understand the power of pose, light, gesture and framing....
...In 2014, the artist Kara Walker’s huge installation “A Subtlety”, a massive sugar sphinx with an African-American head, haunted the refinery with its evocations of sugarcane plantations, enslavement and...
...But then she says: “Three different generations of artists come to mind when you ask for favourites — Lee Bontecou, Kara Walker and Lauren Halsey....
...One of my most prized is a sculptural pitcher by Kara Walker. I also have a set of plates from the Coalition for the Homeless project that includes designs by Derrick Adams and Adam Pendleton....
...Lady Midnight’s ragtime, soul and rock score adds melancholic/defiant strains to Kara Walker’s stop-motion animation “Prince McVeigh and the Turner Blasphemies”: leaping shadow-puppets enact the recent white...
...The title of the work is “Allegory of the Obama Years by Kara E Walker”....
...For the past 14 years, Joannou and his Deste Foundation have invited some of the world’s most famous contemporary artists — Matthew Barney, Maurizio Cattelan, Kara Walker, Urs Fischer and Kiki Smith, among...
...I have an intaglio print by Kara Walker, titled Lil Patch of Woods (1997), which I have hung in my home office for motivation....
...In 2019, Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall hosted Kara Walker’s “Fons Americanus”, a 13-metre-tall fountain alluding to the suffering of humans transported as cargo across the Atlantic that shaped the modern world...
...The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is Kara Walker. Our kids went to school together and I bought one of her works at the school auction. I’d love to have more....
...In addition to artworks by the likes of Derek Adams, Theaster Gates, Mickalene Thomas and Kara Walker, and music from house DJs Kumi and Pam Jones, Red Rooster also regularly invites guest DJs such as hip-hop...
...This gutting exhibition summons a roster of current stars (Lorna Simpson, Theaster Gates, Kara Walker, Kerry James Marshall, plus many more) and plenty of work from the past decade....
...Participants will include the artists Jeremy Deller, Lubaina Himid and Kara Walker as well as an acoustic set by Arlo Parks (February 17-19)....
...Walker, to Japanese woodblock prints by Hiroshige and original manga sketches for Studio Ghibli movies....
...Kara Walker takes the opposite approach....
...The American artist Kara Walker has risen to the challenge....
...Also on the Art Basel rooms (June 19-26) will be a vast, four-part work by Kara Walker, “(Fons Americanus archive)” (2019, 245.1cm x 753.1cm), shown by Sikkema Jenkins gallery....
...In a paper-cut silhouette by Kara Walker. In the dazzling, 24ct-gold gilded painting by British-Liberian artist Lina Iris Viktor — bought through black Chicago gallerist Mariane Ibrahim....
...Kara Walker: Fons Americanus runs from October 2 2019 to April 5 2020....
...She has made audioguides for Tate and, on Tate Modern’s invitation, ran a tour of the latest Turbine Hall commission, an anti-slavery installation by American artist Kara Walker....
...Kara Walker: Hyundai Commission (£19.99, Tate Publishing)New York-based artist Kara Walker’s 13m-high fountain, Fons Americanus, a comment on suppressed histories running between continents and standing...
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