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Starting Out, Kara Walker — Art21

Starting Out, Kara Walker — Art21

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Kara Walker reflects on the state of the art world, imparting wisdom from her own experiences to the next generation of artists. "There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist," says Walker. "You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist." Watch → http://a21.tv/WalkerStartingOut | Art21

Kara Walker reflects on the state of the art world, imparting wisdom from her own experiences to the next generation of artists. "There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist," says Walker. "You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist." Watch → http://a21.tv/WalkerStartingOut | Art21

10.8K viewsJan 3, 2021

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Sending Out A Signal, Kara Walker & Jason Moran — Art21

Sending Out A Signal, Kara Walker & Jason Moran — Art21

Kara Walker: Teaching Guide | A.rt R.esources T.ransfer

Kara Walker: Teaching Guide | A.rt R.esources T.ransfer

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Kara Walker discusses her subversive use of the traditional silhouette technique. “A lot of my work has been about the unexpected…that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time,” says the artist in our 2003 episode, “Stories.” “That kind of dilemma, that push and pull, is the underlying turbulence that I bring to each of the pieces that I make.” Watch→http://a21.tv/WalkerStories | Art21

200K viewsFeb 13, 2023

"A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby" Kara Walker

Be inspired by today's most compelling artists. Art21 returns to PBS on 9/21 at 9 p.m. | Art21

9.7K viewsSep 20, 2018

Inspiration from Kara Walker and Jason Moran in celebration of Juneteenth ⤵️ Walker and Moran created a mobile monument to slavery with "Katastwóf Karavan" (2018), a steam powered calliope that paid tribute to enslaved Africans in America. For its initial presentation at the Prospect.4 triennial in New Orleans, the work was placed and activated on the bank of the Mississippi River at Algiers Point, a site where Africans arrived to be sold into slavery in the 1700s. "As a stationary object, it al

36.1K viewsJun 19, 2020

For her landmark 2014 project, "A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby," Kara Walker appropriated the image of a mammy to create a monumental sphinx-like figure who "gains her power by upsetting expectations, one after the other." "It's very important to look back," said Walker. "Sometimes looking back leads to depression and stasis, which isn't good. But looking forward without any kind of deep, historical feeling of connectedness—it's no good either." Watch → https://a21.tv/WalkerSubtlety #Ar

5.9K viewsSep 10, 2020

Kara Walker offers advice to the next generation of artists in an episode from Art21's "Exclusive" digital series. — http://a21.tv/KaraWalkerStartingOut "I tell my students that they have to—and will—change the art world from the moment they step into it," says the artist in this clip. "If you can look at the negatives as a student and see what needs to be changed, then you have to do that." | Art21

52.7K viewsMay 22, 2017

'A Subtlety': How Kara Walker divided audiences

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📺Season 2 of “Art in the Twenty-First Century” is now available on YouTube for the first time. Watch Kara Walker in the “Stories” episode now→ https://youtu.be/nrKIGL5ZWNk “The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events, a point in history and nothing else,” says Kara Walker about her subversive use of the traditional silhouette technique. The segment traces the evolution of Walker’s work, from time spent in the studio to the artist’s installations of projected light. | Art21

3.6K viewsOct 11, 2024

ART21 returns to PBS this Friday night at 9:00 p.m. with a new broadcast season, hosted by actress Claire Danes (http://a21.tv/ART21Season8; check local listings). "Chicago" is the first of two back-to-back season premiere episodes. The episode, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Stanley Nelson, features artists Nick Cave, Theaster Gates, Barbara Kasten, and Chris Ware. "Chicago" is followed immediately by a second new episode, "Mexico City". | Art21

73.8K viewsSep 14, 2016

Artist Kara Walker on her Domino Sugar Refinery installation

Kara Walker: A Fortuneteller in the Land of ChatGPT

NY TimesKaren Rosenberg

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Happy holidays from all of us at ART21! The "snowfall" that we captured from Kara Walker's "A Subtlety" (http://a21.tv/KaraWalkerDomino) was among our notable moments of 2014. See more at: http://a21.tv/ART21Holidays2014 | Art21

13.4K viewsDec 23, 2014

Kara Walker's "African Boy Attendant Curio with Molasses and Brown Sugar" needed to be carefully covered in its molasses and brown sugar in a 3-day process before being displayed as part of "Art in the Open: Fifty Years of Public Art in New York." Plan your visit to #ArtintheOpen: http://bit.ly/2x5d5NR | Museum of the City of New York

10.3K viewsFeb 5, 2018

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Kara Walker Is No One’s Robot

NY TimesHilarie M. Sheets

Minerva Cuevas — Art21

Exploring Kara Walker's Art: Silhouettes, Paper, and History

212.3K viewsFeb 22, 2023

Spirituality — Art21

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Our flagship "Art in the Twenty-First Century" series returns to PBS with a tenth season on September 18. Twelve artists and one collective are presented across three new episodes, charting artmaking in London, Beijing, and regions around the United States-Mexico border. Included in the new season are Tanya Aguiñiga, John Akomfrah, Phyllida Barlow, Guan Xiao, Anish Kapoor, Liu Xiaodong, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Christian Marclay, Richard Misrach, Postcommodity, Song Dong, Xu Bing, and Yin Xiuzhen.

3.1K viewsSep 1, 2020

Announcing Season 8 of our "Art in the Twenty-First Century" series, premiering September 16 on PBS in the U.S. (http://a21.tv/ART21Season8). For this season, the featured artists are grouped by their relationships to the places in which they live—Chicago, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and Vancouver. Season 8 features: Natalia Almada, Edgar Arceneaux, Nick Cave, Minerva Cuevas, Stan Douglas, Theaster Gates, Brian Jungen, Barbara Kasten, Liz Larner, Liz Magor, Tala Madani, Damian Ortega, Pedro Reyes,

153.8K viewsMay 26, 2016

Go inside The American Wing and reflect on Kara Walker’s “The Crossing” on this week’s #CQMinute 🎶 Today @catalystquartet—our @metlivearts 2022–23 Quartet in Residence—performs the music of composer Billy Childs (@billychildspiano), writing: “The instruments interact as if they are in deep conversation with one another; several pauses in the music leave space for the voices to ponder what has just been said. Billy creates a soulful, solemn soundscape that creates space for thought, reflection,

5K viewsFeb 14, 2023

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“The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events, a point in history and nothing else." ⏳It's 11 weeks to Season 12! As part of our countdown to the new season of "Art in the Twenty-First Century," we're revisiting some of our most popular clips! 👇 In this clip from the Season 2 episode "Stories," artist Kara Walker (@kara_walker_official) discusses her subversive use of the traditional silhouette technique. "I was tracing outlines of profiles thinking about physiognomy and rac

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