Best known for her large-scale cut-paper silhouettes that cover entire rooms, the American artist Kara Walker offers a more intimate insight into her work in this display at the Kunstmuseum Basel (5 June–26 September). On view here are some 600 works on paper from her personal archive, presented to the public for the first time; together they show how important drawing – and the influence of masters in the medium such as Goya and Hogarth – has been in Walker’s construction of her expansive tableaux, which typically take on the history of slavery and racism in the US. Find out more from the Kunstmuseum Basel’s website.
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