Azucar! Kara Walker’s Marvelous Sugar Babies Coming to NYC

Kara Walker is one of my foremost favorite artists.

Domino Sugar Refinery in Williamsburg
Domino Sugar Refinery in Williamsburg (Photo: Wikipedia)

 This May she will take over Brooklyn’s legendary Domino Sugar Factory to present Marvelous Sugar Baby, an homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant. Cannot wait!

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