NEW! Watch Kara Walker unveil never-before-seen drawings that grapple with race, gender, and violence.⁠ ⁠ Walker has shown her silhouetted depictions of plantation life in most of the world’s leading institutions.⁠ ⁠ Her monumental fountain sculpture⁠ depicting the transatlantic slave trade, Fons Americanus, made global headlines and an⁠ FKA Twigs’ music video. ⁠ ⁠ Now, Kunstmuseum Basel is revealing a lesser-known aspect of Walker’s prolific creative output: her drawings.⁠ Find out more on NOWN
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NEW! Watch Kara Walker unveil never-before-seen drawings that grapple with race, gender, and violence.⁠ ⁠ Walker has shown her silhouetted depictions of plantation life in most of the world’s leading institutions.⁠ ⁠ Her monumental fountain sculpture⁠ depicting the transatlantic slave trade, Fons Americanus, made global headlines and an⁠ FKA Twigs’ music video. ⁠ ⁠ Now, Kunstmuseum Basel is revealing a lesser-known aspect of Walker’s prolific creative output: her drawings.⁠ Find out more on NOWN
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Kara Walker: Shadows and Silhouettes
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Kara Walker: Shadows and Silhouettes
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Kara Walker | Art21 | Preview from Season 2 of "Art in the Twenty-First Century" (2003)
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Kara Walker | Art21 | Preview from Season 2 of "Art in the Twenty-First Century" (2003)
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La artista Kara Walker llega a la Argentina con una muestra que desafía el racismo y la memoria
La artista Kara Walker llega a la Argentina con una muestra que desafía el racismo y la memoria
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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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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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A History of Violence | Kara Walker
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A History of Violence | Kara Walker
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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 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 Biography - History of Kara Walker in Timeline
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Kara Walker, 2014 Art Innovator
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How Does Kara Walker Make Her Silhouettes? - Artists Behind the Art
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Kara Walker - Interesting Facts About Artist Kara Walker
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Ausstellung Kara Walker im Kunstmuseum in Basel
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ART WORDS: 'Installation art' describes large-scale constructions that spectators walk through or around in order to experience fully. Like Kara Walker's 2019 Hyundai Commission, installation artworks are often designed for a specific place, space or time. Find 'Fons Americanus' in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall: http://bit.ly/2M1z81O | Tate
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You have to see this incredible Kara Walker installation at SFMOMA
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Kara Walker in
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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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2018 Walter Annenberg Lecture: Kara Walker | Live from the Whitney
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Kara Walker's "A Subtlety" - Creative Time
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New Catalog Shares Kara Walker’s Creative Journey With ‘Fortuna'
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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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Kara Walker - African American Art History
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Starting Out, Kara Walker — Art21
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Artist Kara Walker on her Domino Sugar Refinery installation
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Kara Walker | Tate Modern
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Kara Walker: Rise Up Ye Mighty Race!
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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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Kara Walker's "African Boy Attendant Curio with Molasses and Brown Sugar" needed to be carefully covered in its molasses and brown sugar in a 3-day process before being displayed as part of "Art in the Open: Fifty Years of Public Art in New York." Plan your visit to #ArtintheOpen: http://bit.ly/2x5d5NR | Museum of the City of New York
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