The art and automatons of Kara Walker. Walker’s new installation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art offers us visions from both the past and future. Kara Walker, Fortuna and the ...

Daijah Williams, a student curator, discussed the exhibit with art collector Jordan Schnitzer and President Carol Folt, all of whom delivered speeches at the exhibit’s Thursday evening preview. (Emma ...

Kara Walker is her generation’s Andy Warhol. It starts with materials: Where Warhol elevated the silk-screen to the status of fine art, Walker, 53, has salvaged the paper silhouette from antique ...

Shepard Symposium for Social Justice: Rebecca Peabody Keynote Address, The Work of Difficult Art: Kara Walker in Context - April 6, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Collector and philanthropist Jordan Schnitzer ...

Kara Walker, “The Ballad of How We Got Here,” 2021. Flashe, ink, and cut paper on paper. 124 ½ x 139 ¾ inches. (Images courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., ...

Kara Walker in 2022. Intertwining the digital and the handmade, ‘ “Fortuna” demands much more of us than many other “interactive” installations,” our critic says. Credit ...

Kara Walker’s “Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, with an ensemble of seven automatons enacting a mix of chance and choreographed movements.

This year’s Weisman Art Museum (WAM) fall exhibition peers into the shadows of America’s glorified history and beckons forth what has been disremembered. WAM opened “Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial ...

Artist Kara Walker’s work examining race in the antebellum South comes to Weisman Art Museum The MacArthur “genius” grant winner has annotated etchings from Civil-War era magazine Harper’s ...

A major new show for an African-American woman artist at the Saint Louis Art Museum is something to celebrate, though Kara Walker’s work itself does not tend to leave one in a celebrating mood.