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Kara Walker

[African-American, born in 1969]

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Original works by Kara Walker available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Notable SiteArt Institute of Chicago   NEW!

Notable SiteGuggenheim Berlin

Notable SiteGuggenheim Museum, New York City

Notable SiteGuggenheim Museum, New York City

Notable SiteMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Notable SiteMuseum of Modern Art, New York City

Notable SiteMuseum of Modern Art, New York City
Boo-Hoo, 2000

Notable SiteSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina   NEW!
Freedom: A Fable

Broad Art Foundation

Brooklyn Museum, New York City   NEW!

Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
The Gift, 1997

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Information about the 2007 exhibition, "Kara Walker: "Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)""

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Kara Walker in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
A Means to An End

Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy (in Italian)  

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Presenting Negro Scenes Drawn Upon My Passage through the South

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey   NEW!

Sweeney Art Gallery at U.C. Riverside, California   NEW!
Freedom, A Fable, pop-up book, 1997

Tate Gallery, London, UK

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
The Means to an End - A Shadow Drama in Five Acts, 1995

The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago

Walker Art Center, Minnesota

 
Miscellaneous Sites:
Artnet Artist Works Catalogues  

Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art   NEW!

PBS
Culture Shock: Are the arts dangerous?

PBS
Superb reproductions of a couple of works plus a photograph of the artist.

PBS
art:21 - Art in the 21st Century

The Sender Collection, New York
A private lending collection of Minimal and Conceptual Art
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Notable SiteUnion List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Untitled, 2003

ARTnews
"Cut It Out!"

Bomb Magazine
Interview with the artist

Deutsche Bank Artmag
The Ironic Masquerades of Kara Walker

Deutsche Bank Artmag
A conversation between Darius James and Kara Walker

Deutsche Bank Artmag
Kara Walker at the Vienna MuseumsQuartier

Frieze Magazine
"Kara Walker's film 8 Possible Beginnings"

Frieze Magazine
"Strange Fruit"

Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 102): Kara Walker

Museo Magazine
Rethinking the Woman as Fetish: The Art of Kara Walker

 
Multimedia:
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto   NEW!
A one-hour audio interview with the artist

Frieze Foundation, London, UK
Film commissioned by Frieze Film in 2007

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Interactive Flash feature: Kara Walker's No Mere Words . . .


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Look Inside Books:Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.            
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Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker


 
 
 
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Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress




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Kara Walker: Pictures From Another Time




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Kara Walker: Safety Curtain




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