Her new show ‘My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love’ at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Critic Jerry Saltz captures what’s right on about her work: Walker’s work is “revolting” because she doesn’t give us the familiar, palatable sanctimoniousness of beneficent white liberals, Old Black Joes, Uncle Toms, and shuffling, sinless Negroes. Nor [...]
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Sight: The Art of Kara Walker
Posted in art, Jerry Saltz, Kara Walker, museums, My Complement on November 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »