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Kara Walker
[African-American, born in 1969]
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Kara Walker Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Kara Walker available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Guggenheim Berlin
This space is now closed, but some information about past exhibitions remains online
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Insurrection! (Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On), 2000
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Boo-Hoo, 2000
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Information about a 2007-2008 exhibition
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina
Freedom: A Fable
Broad Art Foundation
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
The Gift, 1997
Hammer Museum, California
Images from a 2008 exhibition
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
A Means to An End
Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy (in Italian) 
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Presenting Negro Scenes Drawn Upon My Passage through the South
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Sweeney Art Gallery at U.C. Riverside, California
Freedom, A Fable, pop-up book, 1997
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
The Means to an End - A Shadow Drama in Five Acts, 1995
The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Girl
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Artnet Artist Works Catalogues 
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
PBS
Superb reproductions of a couple of works plus a photograph of the artist.
PBS
Culture Shock: Are the arts dangerous?
The Sender Collection, New York
A private lending collection of Minimal and Conceptual Art
(Get past the splash page, then click "Artists")
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Kara Walker
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Untitled, 2003
ARTnews
"Cut It Out!"
Bomb Magazine
Interview with the artist
Deutsche Bank Artmag
The Ironic Masquerades of Kara Walker
Deutsche Bank Artmag
A conversation between Darius James and Kara Walker
Deutsche Bank Artmag
Kara Walker at the Vienna MuseumsQuartier
Frieze Magazine
"Kara Walker's film 8 Possible Beginnings"
Frieze Magazine
"Strange Fruit"
Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 102): Kara Walker
Museo Magazine
Rethinking the Woman as Fetish: The Art of Kara Walker
New York Magazine
"An Explosion of Color, in Black and White", 2007 article by Jerry Saltz
The Village Voice
"Making the Cut", 2005 article by Jerry Saltz
The Village Voice
"Queen of Night", 2006 article by Jerry Saltz
The Village Voice
"Making the Cut", 1998 article by Jerry Saltz
Multimedia:
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
A one-hour audio interview with the artist
Frieze Foundation, London, UK
Film commissioned by Frieze Film in 2007
PBS
Profile from art:21 - Art in the 21st Century
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Interactive Flash feature: Kara Walker's No Mere Words . . .
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker
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