Kara Walker – A black hole is everything a star longs to be ORIG

Kara Walker Works 3 — The right side, 2018 Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett, © Kara Walker

Kara Walker, Works 1 — Untitled, 16 (left) and A Shocking Declaration of Independence, 2018 © Private Archive Kara Walker/Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett

Kara Walker Works 8 — The Gross Clinical Presents: Pater Gravidam Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett, © Kara Walker

Kara Walker Works 4 — Untitled, 2011 Collection of Randi Charno Levine, New York, © Kara Walker

Kara Walker Works 5 — Untitled, form a 24-part series, 2002-2004 Archive of the artist © Kara Walker

Kara Walker Works 2 — Untitled, 1999 (left) and Barack Obama as Othello "The Moor" with the severed head of Iago in a new and revised ending by Kara E. Walker, 2019 Private Archive Kara Walker and The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection, San Francisco

Kara Walker Works 9 — Ausstellungsansicht Kunstmuseum Basel, Kara Walker, A Black Hole is Everything a Star Longs to Be. Kunstmuseum Basel/Jonas Hänggi

Kara Walker Works 6 — ' merica, 2016 Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett © Kara Walker

Kara Walker Works 7 — Untitled, 2016 Private archive Kara Walker © Kara Walker

Kara Walker Works 11 — Fealty as Faint (a drawing exercise), 2019 Fredriksen Family Collection, Oslo © Kara Walker

Kara Walker Works 10 — Untitled, before 2007 Collection of Lonti Evers, New York © Kara Walker

Kara Walker Works 9 — Ausstellungsansicht Kunstmuseum Basel, Kara Walker, A Black Hole is Everything a Star Longs to Be. Kunstmuseum Basel/Julian Salinas

Kara Walker Works 12 — Yesterdayness in America Today, 2020 Private Archive Kara Walker © Kara Walker

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