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Kara Walker Deconstructs a Statue, and a Myth

As part of the group exhibition “Monuments,” the artist took a Stonewall Jackson bronze and transformed it into a radically new, unsettled thing.

© Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. for The New York Times

The artist Kara Walker at her part-time home in Westerly, R.I. Since the 1990s, Walker has examined American racial history and psychology in an acerbic vein through drawings, sculptures and installation.
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