Guest Picks: Kara Walker

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 12, 2014

Artist Kara Walker talked about her sculpture installation in the Domino Sugar factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She shared a few of her favorite things with us.

What have you read or seen over the past year (book, play, film, etc…) that moved or surprised you? 

      Sigmar Polke exhibit at MoMA

 

What are you listening to right now?

      L. Lopate, but that is because I am in the WNYC Green Room 

 

What’s the last great book you read? 

     Sweetness and Power by Sidney W. Mintz, and City of Women by Ruth Landes

 

What’s one thing you’re a fan of that people might not expect? 

     Graphic novels like Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

 

What’s your favorite comfort food?  

     Huevos Rancheros!

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