Photograph by Elisabeth Smolarz, courtesy of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation
1. She has impressive credentials. Starke previously served as director of exhibitions at Creative Time in New York, as well as assistant curator for the Museum of Modern Art’s Department of Media and Performance Art.
2. Her projects dazzle. At Creative Time, she oversaw Kara Walker’s ambitious installation A Subtlety, a temporary work sited in Brooklyn’s legendary Domino Sugar Factory before its demolition. It featured a massive sphinx-turned-mammy sculpted from 35 tons of sugar. Starke also worked on Nick Cave’s HEARD NY in Grand Central Terminal, the group exhibition Black Radical Brooklyn, and Suzanne Lacy’s New York premiere Between the Door and the Street, among other projects.
3. Her first exhibit here is groundbreaking. This fall, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation will offer Kota: Digital Excavations in African Art, an installation of more than 50 Kota reliquary guardian figures. Digital tools will enhance visitors’ understanding of the objects, providing information that was largely considered lost.
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