Kara Walker at the Met

American artist Kara Walker's new show After the Deluge is on at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Walker, famous for her "exploration of issues of race, gender, and sexuality through the 18th-century medium of cut-paper silhouettes", explores "the transformative effect and psychological meaning of the sea" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. In the gallery of the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing (Modern Art) through July 30th.