The past few years have been a sea change in the way museums, galleries, and organizations view media created by Black artists, and in many cases many older artists are finally getting their due. There’s everything from a Kerry James Marshall painting selling for over 21 million, Basquiat paintings…
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KARA WALKER’S TRADEMARK SILHOUETTES are as opaque as the irreducible differences that put the politics in difference. The artist is equally adept at eliciting responses to both. Indeed, Walker’s manifold contribution includes the crises of category irreducible difference typically instigates. An engaged observer is exposed to projections that seem to issue from Walker’s personality at force. So many are the quirks in play that some find the work impenetrable, that it pushes too much other-than-me substance to merit Walker a place under a shared sign. Which is fair. But when an observer’s resistance