‘Old, Weird America’ explores American folklore May 21, 2008
So Kara Walker offers outrageous animation using shadowy silhouette figures to act out vignettes about slavery and racism. Dario Robleto probes war widow practices of framing hair, letters and memento type possessions with human bones, excavated wartime bullets, soldiers Middle East war letters, and Civil War mourning attire. (Conroe Courier, TX)
21C, Louisville's hipster hotel, and a housemade tonic Apr 17, 2008
How about a room full of Kara Walker. Yeah, that's in Louisville, you snots. (Epicurious.com)
Social engineering Mar 24, 2008
Inside the Wave' and 'Kara Walker' are politically charged exhibitions, and each has its own twist ... Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love ... By happenstance, one of the most prominent creators of socially charged art, Kara Walker, has a major exhibition on view at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, its only West Coast venue. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
SLIDE SHOWOne naked person is art. How about 18,000? Jan 23, 2008
The violent, abject, sometimes disconcertingly tender art of Kara Walker. Mia Finemanposted Nov. 7, 2007. (Slate)
After de Montebello: What awaits the Metropolitan Museum of Art? Jan 14, 2008
In recent years, the Met has organized scattershot exhibitions by relatively young artists like Neo Rauch and Kara Walker. This past fall, crowds came and some critics groaned when the Met put Damien Hirst's shark in formaldehyde on view. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Way more than just smoke and mirrors Dec 27, 2007
Glad tidings of acquisitions and commissions at the AGO (David Altmejd, Kara Walker) are giving rise to high hopes, as is the announcement that Catherine De Zegher, recently of the Drawing Center in New York, will be taking the curatorial helm on Jan. 21, directing the exhibition program. But Toronto wasn't alone. (Globe and Mail)
The trouble with Western art today Dec 20, 2007
You see it in another exhibition at the Whitney by the artist Kara Walker, which merges show and tell, form and idea. Ms. Walker pastes cut out black silhouettes on white walls, depicting stereotypical scenes from the antebellum South that excoriate racism with what Safer calls gallows humor. (Boulder Colorado Daily, CO)
Civil War depicted in searing silhouettes Nov 9, 2007
Kara Walker goes there routinely in her art, brilliantly and incisively pulling the blinders away to expose viewers' worst dreams and fears about race and power. To mark the inauguration of Harvard University's new president, Drew Gilpin Faust, a Civil War scholar, the Fogg Art Museum has mounted a brief exhibition of 15 prints from Walker's series "Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated).". (Boston Globe)
'Color Purple' gives audience much-needed uplifting experience Oct 16, 2007
Director Gary Griffin and set designer John Lee Beatty create stunning, rough-hewn stage pictures, using silhouettes that evoke the eloquent images of Kara Walker to underscore the oppressive racism that intrudes on these lives. Some of Griffin's stagings are oddly flat, though, and he has to take responsibility for the rushed pacing that makes the plot seem like a Disney-fied Cliff Notes version of Walker's novel. (San Francisco Chronicle)
NYC & Company and WNBC's News 4 You Offer Tips for the Solo Traveler in New York City Sep 25, 2007
Through December 31, the Fisher Landau Center for Art will showcase Paper, a two-floor exhibition with more than 200 works by artists like Kara Walker, Agnes Martin and more. Big Onion Walking Tours has been offering tours throughout New York City since 1991. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Nobelist Morrison Debuts With Slave Opera `Margaret Garner' Sep 13, 2007
Those who noticed took a few minutes to see a display of Civil War prints by Kara Walker. Margaret Garner'' is in repertoire at the New York State Theatre until Sept.29. (Bloomberg)
Women's worlds, from many corners of the world Sep 9, 2007
In a print by Kara Walker depicting the silhouette of a black woman holding aloft a white woman whose voluminous white gown resembles a bale of cotton, the circumstances of black women in America are seen as inextric- ably connected to the history of slavery. Skillfully realized in traditional Indian miniature style, a painting by Boston-based artist Ambreen Butt depicts the artist in a sweatsuit wielding a sword and calmly taming a dragon and two comically ugly demons. (Boston Globe -- Living)
The Tarble at 25 Sep 8, 2007
The most contemporary works exhibited, in terms of concepts, is a selection from the Peter Norton Christmas Commissions, with works by Kara Walker and others. And from the Tarble s study collection is a Oaxacan woodcarving from Mexico. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Bacon, Freud Joined Top Artists in Sales That Made $883 Million Jun 26, 2007
Contemporary artists who set records included Kara Walker, Thomas Schutte, Christopher Wool, a favorite of hedge-fund managers, Piero Manzoni, Lucio Fontana and Yue Minjun. New highs also were reached for earlier artists such as Joan Miro, Natalia Goncharova and Auguste Rodin. (Bloomberg)
Carrie Mae Weems's The Hampton Project raises old, uncomfortable questions quietly Mar 21, 2007
But we're in the midst of a reassessment of this socially concerned style now, with retrospectives of Campos-Pons at the Indianapolis Museum of Art , Simpson at New York's Whitney Museum , and Kara Walker at Minneapolis's Walker Art Center. (Walker also has a small show at Andover's Addison Gallery of American Art. (Boston Globe -- Living)
A Different 'Take' Feb 9, 2007
REVIEW / Women's artworks at Mills ask questions about gender, authority and tradition (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
* Lights from the dawn of modernism Oct 26, 2006
(The effect is halfway between Balinese puppets and Kara Walker. Dreier never owned the film, but arranged for its showing at the New School in 1926. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
The MacArthur Geniuses: Oct 11, 2006
Alfredo Jaar, a 2000 winner, creates art that "focuses on injustices around the worldpoverty, exploitation, genocide." 1997 winner Kara Walker constructs silhouettes about racial and sexual exploitation. 2000 fellow David Isay produces brilliant radio documentaries about the lives of poor Americans. (Slate)
As tassels turn, grads prepare to write new chapters May 14, 2006
Kara Walker, a 1991 ACA graduate whose work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and numerous other prominent museums, called the college "another one of Atlanta's lost causes, a place that has 'gone with the wind.'". The tiny and respected 100-year-old institution was an original pillar of the Woodruff Arts Center, which decided last year to merge the school with the nearby Atlanta branch of the Savannah College of Art n.... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Is artist Kara Walker trading in on tragedy for fame? Apr 19, 2006
And the contemporary artist Kara Walker plays on those minimalist-into-maximalist ambiguities in her politically charged cut paper images, mixing a nostalgia for nineteenth-century forms with some up-to-the-minute observations on race, gender, and class. When she gives us her shadowy images of black mammies and their kids, she seems to simultaneously polish and puncture the clich;s. (New Republic)
