Tag: Kara Walker
Kara Walker’s A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby is not subtle. Dusted with 40 tons of bleached sugar, it stands nearly four stories high and lays 75 and a half feet long across the gutted cavern of the Domino Sugar Factory, which will soon to destroyed and replaced with a glossy condo complex. The New Yorker called the work, unsubtly, “Mammy-as-Sphnix.” […]
American artist Kara Walker will take over the historic deteriorated, 90,000-square-foot industrial dump that is Brooklyn’s former Domino Sugar Refining Plant. Walker is most know for her room-size tableaux installations of black cut-paper silhouettes, often violent and sexual as well as shocking, fitting her subject matter — American Antebellum, slavery, abuse of power and rebellion. The factory will […]
