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The Broad Un-Private Collection: Kara Walker and Ava Duvernay

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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1, 2014—The ninth talk in the highly successful The Broad Un-Private Collection series pairs one of the most important artists of our time, Kara Walker, with 2012 Sundance Best Director Ava DuVernay. Taking place on Oct. 11 at 2 p.m. at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills, the sold-out talk will be streamed live online at thebroad.org, making the conversation accessible to a wide audience.

Both speakers are artists reaching new heights of recognition and accomplishment in their careers. Kara Walker’s unprecedented public art installation A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby welcomed over 130,000 visitors in two months this past spring at the Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn, N.Y. Ava DuVernay will release her much-anticipated feature film Selma this December. The dialogue will be an opportunity to gain insight into each artist’s creative process and their approach to subject matter. Walker and DuVernay use historical narratives as well as fictionalized histories to tell important and often challenging stories from the perspective of African-American women.

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Q&A: Kara Walker on the bit of sugar sphinx she saved, video she’s making

It’s not very often that an artist talk sells out with the swiftness of a high-profile pop concert. But that was the case for a highly anticipated talk between artist Kara Walker, who is known for her phantasmagoric cut-paper installations, and filmmaker Ava DuVernay, who is at work on a biopic about Martin Luther King Jr. The pair was teamed up by the Broad as part of the museum’s “Un-Private Collection” artist talk series. Within eight hours of putting the tickets on sale this summer, every last one was gone.

For good reason: It’s not every day the art industry gets an opportunity to hear two prominent African American women talk about the whys and hows of their creative process. The appearance also follows Walker’s sensational installation of a massive sugar sphinx at the old Domino Sugar factory in New York, a commission for the arts nonprofit Creative Time. The piece, known in shorthand as “A Subtlety” (its real name is infinitely longer), consisted of a 75-foot-long menacing mammy figure crafted entirely out of ghostly white sugar.

In their funny, raw and meandering chat (which I’ve embedded in this post), Walker and DuVernay discussed the sculpture’s genesis, the challenges of working