Cries of Distress, Horror, and Resistance: At Prospect.4 in New Orleans, Kara Walker’s Pitch-Perfect Calliope Finally Sounds
After delays, the artist's eagerly anticipated commission debuted during the triennial's closing weekend.
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Kara Walker
Happy Days: A Tightly Curated Prospect.4 Offers a Welcome Dose of Optimism
Various venues, New Orleans, through February 25
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Kara Walker
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…
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High Museum of Art Acquires 58-Foot-Long Kara Walker Silhouette
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…
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“Encoded”
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…
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With a Display of New Work from Its Collection, MoMA Takes a Political Turn
What can “Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection,” the Museum of Modern Art’s show of recent acquisitions by 15 contemporary artists, tell us? For one thing, MoMA wants…
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SNMAAHC in the Middle of the Mall: Art Is the Chapel in This Mega Church
In the Jorge Luis Borges story from 1945, “The Aleph,” we are told of a sphere, secreted in a dark cellar, in which all the spatial infinitude and plenitude of the world can be…
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Larry Walker
Since the 1960s, Larry Walker has pursued a rigorous artistic practice, often portraying human bodies and landscapes under duress. Raised in Harlem and educated in Detroit, he has lived since the…
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“Blackness in Abstraction”
More than halfway through “Blackness in Abstraction,” an austere photograph by Carrie Mae Weems posed a Mies van der Rohe leather daybed—conjuring a truant psychoanalytic patient, perhaps—against a wa…
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MoMA Reveals Recent Acquisitions: Josh Kline’s ‘Skittles,’ Harmony Korine’s ‘Spring Breakers,’ More
Over on MoMA’s website is a list of what the museum has acquired over the past fiscal year. While some of the major acquisitions have already been announced, like Richard Serra’s…
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