In this BOMB Magazine interview from 2007, Walker speaks candidly about her artistic process and how she has coped with the backlash from black artists such as Howardena Pindel, whose book Kara ...

Interview by Antwaun Sargent (@Sirsargent)Kara Walker, the American artist, at the request of Creative Time, has shifted her vision from cotton fields of the antebellum south to the sugar cane ...

Black History Month: Artist Kara Walker, with massive mural on display at Atlanta's High Museum, uses discomfort to make her point.

Kara Walker's silhouettes shock, subvert and scintillate. Accessibility links. ... The images are undeniable dialog starters, so take a look this interview with Art:21 and let's talk about it.

Art World ‘There’s No Diploma in the World That Declares You an Artist’: Watch Kara Walker Lay Out Her Advice for Art Students. As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making ...

For artist Kara Walker, moving to the South was a kind of wake up call to the centrality of race in American life. Walker’s family left California when she was 13 so her father, celebrated ...

On a superficial level, this title references Walker’s signature art style, in which her silhouettes are physically cut out of black paper. However, beneath the surface, the title alludes to the abuse ...

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 ...

Audiobooks have let the artist “stay invested in stories while working with my hands.” Her new project: illustrating Jamaica Kincaid’s “An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children.” ...

Kara Walker, Gone, An Historical Romance of Civil War As it Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of Young Negress and Her Heart (1994). Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art.

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.