The Guardian view on Tate Modern’s new sculpture: a gift and a rebuke | Editorial

Kara Walker’s new commission remakes the language of monuments through allusions and references to the slavery ageThe Turbine Hall at London’s Tate Modern is a cavernous maw that swallows and spits out all but the most confident artists. Kara Walker, the latest to have undertaken the annual commission in the echoing central chamber of the former power station, is equal to its challenge. The African American artist has built a 13-metre-tall fountain, a play on the Queen Victoria Memor