Kara Walker's Robots Come Alive in Major SFMOMA Commission

Best known for her black cut-paper silhouettes, American artist Kara Walker takes a new technological approach in her latest exhibition at SFMOMA. The show, titled Fortune and the Immortality Garden (Machine), continues her explorations of race, power and history, guiding viewers through a surreal landscape of ritual and respite.The exhibition's eight Black automatons recall medieval symbols of faith and divinity as they rise and fall in shimmering fields of obsidian. Many of Walker's robotic Ga...