Kara Walker is, hands down, one of America’s most well-regarded living artists. She has shown her cut-paper silhouettes and lurid, projected scenes at every major Arts Institution in America—MoMA, the ...

Kara Walker, 17, was arrested last week in connection with her 8-year-old brother's Feb. 15 death - but she says she's innocent Sean Neumann has more than a decade of experience working as a reporter, ...

She’s known for her famous silhouettes — depictions of Black people in Antebellum dress — but two new shows now running at Georgetown University’s Art Galleries, mark a departure for contemporary ...

"Kara Walker, Back of Hand" at the Poetry Foundation, February 2024 Credit: Sarah Joyce, courtesy of the Poetry Foundation Through the glass windows of the Poetry Foundation, viewers are drawn into ...

Kara Walker is one of the most successful and widely known contemporary African American artists today; she is remarkable for her radical engagement with issues of race, gender, and sexuality and the ...

This is WESA Arts, a weekly newsletter by Bill O'Driscoll providing in-depth reporting about the Pittsburgh area art scene. Sign up here to get it every Wednesday afternoon. Because it’s past, history ...

The Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca) in Los Angeles has acquired Unmanned Drone (2023), a towering bronze sculpture the US artist Kara Walker made by dissecting and reassembling a decommissioned ...

In her SoHo loft, Joan Jonas hosted a dinner celebrating the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ turn to public programming. By Rose Courteau A new show featuring decommissioned statues dispels ...

PITTSBURGH-As the Civil War was raging, thousands of American readers would wait to get news on the conflict every seven days from Harper’s Weekly, then the most widely-read periodical in the United ...