ART: Kara Walker is still on fire

While her work currently on display at the Whitney primarily looks at race, identity politics and sexuality through the image of the black woman, Kara Walker's exhibit, opening at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. this weekend incorporates black men. The title kind of says it all:

"Bureau of Refugees, Freeman and Abandoned Lands- Records, "Miscellaneous Papers" National Archives M809 Roll 23

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For the first half, she borrowed (and reinterpreted) the language from the historical Freedmen's Bureau records that documented crimes against freed slaves. While the second half examines the "dissolution of black subjectivity in the context of four, large white panels" according to the press release. And instead of the massive panoramas of antebellum settings, expect to see her signature cut-outs and silhouettes on a smaller-scale.