SFMOMA’s Roberts Family Gallery is unveiling an installation by celebrated artist Kara Walker. The museum’s admission-free, street-level gallery is the location for the site-specific installation titled Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine) / A Respite for the Weary Time-Traveler / Featuring a Rite of Ancient Intelligence Carried out by The Gardeners / Toward the Continued Improvement of the Human Specious / by Kara E-Walker. It opens on July 1, 2024, and will remain on view through May 2026. Transforming loss from COVID-19 Known for her signature cut-paper silhouettes and drawings exploring the dynamics of history, race and power, Walker has extended her creative reach to monumental installations that challenge communal memory as shaped and concretized through the instit... Read More
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This summer, every streaming service is bringing out the big guns with massive series starring A-listers, apathetic antiheroes and aerial lizards. Here are but a few new and retur... Read More