Why Kara Walker's incendiary slavery art is as relevant as ever
The artist’s bold new work, as seen in an exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art, has taken on a terrifying new prescience in the Trump eraA certain set of expectations attend any exhibition of the work of Kara Walker, the 47-year old African American artist whose tough-minded, incendiary work on the gulf between black and white in an enduringly racially polarized America shakes even the heartiest of souls.Related: Kara Walker: ‘There is a moment in life where one becomes black&rsquo
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