Kara Walker

Aug 5, 2024 | primarytimes.co.uk | Jamaica Kincaid |Kara Walker

Explore plants, fruits, and flowers and find your inner child, as Primary Times hears from award-winning author and essayist Jamaica Kincaid Get ready to embark on a unique journey as renowned novelist Jamaica Kincaid explores the plant world in ‘An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children’.

May 1, 2024 | interviewmagazine.com | Kara Walker |Emily Sandstrom

Sedrick Chisom’s paintings have often supplied us with accounts of a fictional war taking place in a nation that lives under white supremacy, featuring scenes of isolated characters traversing a desolate land. The paintings included in his new solo show, The 108 Prayers of Evil, continue in the tradition of such fantasies, but provide a new string of narratives that depics both unrest and an attempt at unification.

Apr 1, 2024 | poetryfoundation.org | Kara Walker

A hand, like a sheet of paper, suggests a verso and a recto, a past and a future intimately connected in their reference to one another. Kara Walker: Back of Hand presents works on paper by the American artist Kara Walker that deal directly in the contradictions of misremembered histories, most pointedly in her career-long representation of the horrors beneath the antebellum South’s genteel facades.

Mar 18, 2024 | newyorker.com | Jamaica Kincaid |Kara Walker

Two entries from a new alphabet of the colonized world, an illustrated ABC. A is for apple (Malus domestica), a member of the rose family (Rosaceae), famously thought to be the fruit the serpent gave to Eve and Adam to eat. It had been the one thing they were forbidden to do, eat that fruit, and after they did they fell in love with the world around them—and understandably so, for they were in a garden.

Sep 30, 2023 | socialbites.ca | Kara Walker

Says Pedro G. Romero HE What is popular is not fame or pop or folk art or folklore. rather A transition of all these, but that would not be definitive either.. He knows this well because he had to do a lot of research to shape it. Exhibition Popular, The exhibition he curated opens at IVAM on the 5th.