“Silhouettes are reductions,” the artist Kara Walker said in 2014, “and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.” Walker’s panoramic silhouettes, which confront America’s appalling history of slavery and racism, have been haunting museumgoers since 1994, when she burst upon the scene. With straightforward, poignant, and sometimes violent imagery, her art critiques unjust power structures. In this retrospective, 80 works are on view. —Elena Clavarino
The Arts Intel Report
Kara Walker: Cut to the Quick, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
Kara Walker, Alabama Loyalists Greeting the Federal Gun-Boats, from Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), 2005.
