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Artist Kara Walker on her Domino Sugar Refinery installation

Artist Kara Walker on her Domino Sugar Refinery installation

A Subtlety, also known as The Marvelous Sugar Baby, is a 35-foot-tall, sugar-covered sculpture by Kara Walker that was installed in Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Refinery in 2014. The sphinx-like figure depicts a woman with African features, surrounded by 15 smaller attendant sculptures. The piece was commissioned by Creative Time, a New York-based nonprofit, and was Walker’s first large-scale public project. #contemporaryart #art #artist | Steve Wilson

A Subtlety, also known as The Marvelous Sugar Baby, is a 35-foot-tall, sugar-covered sculpture by Kara Walker that was installed in Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Refinery in 2014. The sphinx-like figure depicts a woman with African features, surrounded by 15 smaller attendant sculptures. The piece was commissioned by Creative Time, a New York-based nonprofit, and was Walker’s first large-scale public project. #contemporaryart #art #artist | Steve Wilson

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Kara Walker’s Thought-Provoking Art

Kara Walker’s Thought-Provoking Art

Question 1: What inspired Kara Walker's large scale installatio... | Filo

Question 1: What inspired Kara Walker's large scale installatio... | Filo

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

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

Kara Walker: A Subtlety

Kara Walker: A Subtlety

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Kara Walker’s Giant Sphinx at Domino Sugar Factory

Kara Walker’s Giant Sphinx at Domino Sugar Factory

The Artist's Voice: Kara Walker

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Behind the Canvas: Kara Walker's A Subtlety

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The Subtleties of Kara Walker's Domino Sugar Sculpture

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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

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Creative Time Presents Kara Walker’s “A Subtlety”

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'A Subtlety': How Kara Walker divided audiences

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A 7-year-old kid describes Kara Walker's A Subtlety to art experts. A gem courtesy of Google Arts & Culture, perfect for MuseumWeek. Full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZBkG7bwQnY | Creative Time

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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

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Kara Walker's Fons Americanus | Tate

Kara Walker: A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby

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Have you seen this massive artwork at the High yet? Artist Kara Walker works across media to address racial prejudice and inequality embedded in contemporary society. In her best known work, she uses silhouettes to create provocative imagery using a visual vocabulary dating to the antebellum era. Her installations satirize the false propriety of the slaveholding Old South, speaking directly to issues of race, identity, privilege and injustice in contemporary society. Walker employs racist stereo

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See how Kara Walker's powerful work came together in our galleries. | High Museum of Art, Atlanta

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

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A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby Explained: Art, Power, and the Dark History of Sugar

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‘Perhaps we Blacks are alchemists, melting the metal of our trauma into gifts.’ Poet Bridget Minamore’s poem ‘Sestina for Kara Walker’ was inspired by this year’s Hyundai Commission: Kara Walker’s ‘Fons Americanus’. Here, Minamore performs a section of her poem in front of Walker’s fountain, accompanied by deaf dance artist Chisato Minamimura, whose BSL interpretation aims to retain the passion and sentiment of Bridget’s words. Hear Minamore perform her poem in full alongside a line-up of spoken

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#blackhistorymonth Kara Walker is a renowned contemporary artist known for her provocative and powerful works exploring race, gender, and identity in America. Born in 1969 in Stockton, California, Walker gained widespread recognition for her innovative use of silhouette art to address themes of slavery, power dynamics, and historical narratives. Her silhouette works often depict scenes from the Antebellum South, characterized by their stark black-and-white contrast and intricate detailing. One o

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Kara Walker: A Fortuneteller in the Land of ChatGPT

NY TimesKaren Rosenberg

This Artist Built the WORLD’S LARGEST Sugar Statue | Kara Walker

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YouTubeSeun's Art Club

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

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Kara Walker Is No One’s Robot

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Kara Walker | Speaking Fee | Booking Agent

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