Doreen St. Félix follows Kara Walker from the afterglow of her first public-art sensation, A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby to exploring what she will manifest for her next public-art marvel. Her Sphinx creature was the largest piece of public art ever erected in New York City. The show also attracted 130,000 visitors and “briefly lived a convoluted life as a coveted social-media geo-tag, and seemed, given the many pilgrims it enticed, to herald a new future for public art in the city,” wrote St. Félix.
This extensive story gives readers a glimpse into the heart, soul and fire unique to Walker and her work.