The clash between entrenched patriarchal attitudes and the newly awakened #MeToo consciousness found some striking counterparts in New York exhibitions such as "The Un-Heroic Act: Representations of…
Having emerged in the 1990s among a group of artists (Nicole Eisenman, Lisa Yuskavage, Ann Agee) unafraid of pressing historical styles to contemporary purpose, Walker understands the many ways the pa…
The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, has acquired Kara Walker’s The Jubilant Martyrs of Obsolescence and Ruin (2015), a 58-foot-long cut-paper piece that, like much of the artist’s work…
It risks oversimplification to read the recent group show “Encoded” as a rejoinder to the racially charged controversy around Kelley Walker’s fall retrospective at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Loui…