Kara Walker

Artists For Change Art Auction In New York

Crains | Posted 09.09.2008 | Entertainment


More than 200 famous artists, including Chuck Close and Kara Walker, will auction off their work next Tuesday to raise money for social activist organ...

CULTURE ZOHN: Two Artists Transform Anger Into Things of Beauty

Patricia Zohn | Posted 02.29.2008 | Entertainment


Patricia Zohn

2008-02-29-crop.jpg Through the use of striking imagery, African-American artist Kara Walker provokes thought about the history of blacks, and particularly the history of black women in the United States.

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song at Von Lintel Gallery: Examines Cultural Issues

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 01.07.2008 | Entertainment


Marcia G. Yerman

The co-opting of "minority cultures" and "outsider" groups is an entrenched element of the American pop culture machine.

The Fascination Index

Pamela Redmond Satran | Posted 12.17.2007 | Living


Pamela Redmond Satran

There are lots of stores, let's face it, that you want to visit only once and then forget they ever existed. The pop-up store - here today, vanished tomorrow - fills that need.

Power Art: Auction Week in New York

Peter Clothier | Posted 11.14.2007 | Living


Peter Clothier

Size does not necessarily make a painting powerful, nor does the imposing gallery space necessarily assure the quality of the art on its walls.