Reimagining the empire
Oct 11, 2019
1 minute
By Suyin Haynes
“I’M FASCINATED BY THE GRANDEUR, the pompousness, the overmuch,” says Kara Walker. That sensibility fueled the American artist’s latest creation, —a 13-m-high fountain unveiled Sept. 30 in London’s Tate Modern museum. presents the brutality of slavery in a subversively joyful setting.
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