Kara Walker's art is like a dead baby joke that fell flat. It appeals almost exclusively to white leftists educated in elite schools chomping at the bit to proclaim "we are all guilty".

People who claim that they like Kara Walker understand that it is "the correct thing to do" to describe her art as "challenging" and "disturbing". They tend to conclude with something like "it's provocative, which is what art is supposed to be, right?"

No, art is supposed to be about sublimity. Walker is part of an intellectual movement that has, somewhat satanically, replaced the sublime with the abject. This exchange carries with it the vague implication that if we don't like it we might be racists.