The Walker Art Center's Target Free Thursday Nights in April are highlighted by programs related to the exhibition Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love (through May 13).
Featured events include the lecture Violating Black Women's Bodies: The Legacies of Slavery in Contemporary U.S. Society (April 12, 7 pm), during which Northwestern University law professor Dorothy Roberts will discuss the plight of women during slavery; the gallery talk The Influence of Uncle Tom (April 19, 7 pm), as Taiyon Coleman, poet and scholar of African American literature, discusses Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 book as it relates to Kara Walker's work; and the lecture Humor Noir (April 26, 7 pm), at which Simon Critchley, professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research and the Getty Research Institute, speaks about the definition and possibilities of the comic as well as humor's ethical limits and function in culture and visual art.
Other highlights in April include another edition of the Walker book club discussion The Artist's Bookshelf, featuring The Known World by Edward P. Jones (April 5, 7 pm), which will be preceded by a curator-led tour of Kara Walker. Also, a program of short films from around the world, part of the Walker's Global Lens series, takes place on April 19 at 9 pm. -- www.walkerart.org
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