Subject: Kara Walker Exhibit
Alright, I promise to stop filling your inbox with a bunch of stuff, but I gotta pass this on for any and all who might be interested and anyone remotely close to the New York Area. I don't want to annoy you guys with a constant flood, but really... I can't help it that I am fortunate enough to know such brilliant, attractive, and urbane people (wink). Click on the link below. Take it easy.
Aisha
Ruth Fremson/The New York Times
"Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love" is "an exquisite, implacable, loose-cannon retrospective," Holland Cotter writes. "Brilliant is the word for it, and the brilliance grows over the survey's decade-plus span." The African-American artist, whose hand-crafted, 19th-century style silhouette mural made her an art star at 25, creates panoramas, drawings, collages, text pieces and shadow puppet film animations, "about race first and last." Cotter writes: "The consistency of the imagery — hapless 'masters,' uppity 'slaves,' tragic-comic violence, uncensored sex — is one reason the show feels so concentrated and absorbing. Once you're in it, you're really in it. You can't just stroll through. Also, Ms. Walker's style is magnetic." If she retired today, he says, "she would leave behind one of the most trenchant and stirring bodies of art produced by any American in the past 15 years." Don't wait: see it at the Whitney this weekend.
"Don't be mad at me! I was born with these powers, I didn't ask for them."
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