Double Take

Kara Walker's watercolors Whip and A Special Attraction were made in the aftermath of her highly-acclaimed public project A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby: an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the Demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant. Dr. Sadhana Bery, assistant professor, Sociology and Africana Studies Departments, Rhode Island College, and Elon Cook, program manager and curator at the Center for Reconciliation in Providence, Rhode Island and director of the Robbins House, Concord, Massachusetts, discuss these works and their references to the brutal history of slavery, as well as the audience response to Walker's work.
Double Takes invite two specialists to offer their views on single objects with a focus on artists and the social context, interpretation, and the ever-evolving meanings of art.
Free.