"Instead of charging into battle, Walker’s headless horseman wanders in Civil War purgatory, dragging its sword over a ruined ...

In Kara Walker’s new show at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., there’s a drawing of former President Barack Obama as Othello, the titular Moorish general of Shakespeare’s 16th-century tragedy, holding the head ...

"Kara Walker, Back of Hand" at the Poetry Foundation, February 2024 Credit: Sarah Joyce, courtesy of the Poetry Foundation Through the glass windows of the Poetry Foundation, viewers are drawn into ...

“A Black Hole Is Everything a Star Longs to Be” at the Kunstmuseum Basel shows Walker's ability to keep her audience off balance. Installation view of "Kara Walker: A black hole is everything a star ...

The Kara Walker: Back of Hand Exhibit is currently held at the Athenaeum in Athens, Georgia. Kara Walker is an internationally famous artist known for her pieces that convey messages about racism, ...

She’s known for her famous silhouettes — depictions of Black people in Antebellum dress — but two new shows now running at Georgetown University’s Art Galleries, mark a departure for contemporary ...

Kara Walker is one of the most successful and widely known contemporary African American artists today; she is remarkable for her radical engagement with issues of race, gender, and sexuality and the ...

The artist’s dystopian installation at SFMOMA shows her evolution as a public artist. In her carnival sideshow she casts a wary eye on tech’s future. By Karen Rosenberg At SFMOMA, the artist enacts a ...