The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.

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• Kara Walker:

  Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is

• Kara Walker:

  I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to ev

• Kara Walker:

  I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that a

• Kara Walker:

  There is something very strange and unsettling for me about making a work that doesn't fit with wha

• Karamo Brown:

  There's so much toxic masculinity out there. I grew up with the notion that the more masculine you

• Karamo Brown:

  We're so divided as a world that we don't often have the opportunity to sit down and talk to people

• Karamo Brown:

  Although someone's vote may hurt me by supporting the structures in place that hold people of colou

• Karamo Brown:

  The worst thing about our political system is that people debate; I wish our politicians were able

• Karamo Brown:

  I have been a proud, openly gay man since I was 18.

• Karamo Brown:

  It's been more than a decade since 'The Real World: Philadelphia' aired. I've grown up. My views ha