{"id":308062,"date":"2025-05-28T11:01:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T09:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alicanteturismo.com\/events\/kara-walker-in-the-michael-jenkins-collection-and-javier-romero-at-maca\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T11:01:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T09:01:48","slug":"kara-walker-in-the-michael-jenkins-collection-and-javier-romero-at-maca","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/dev.alicanteturismo.com\/en\/events\/kara-walker-in-the-michael-jenkins-collection-and-javier-romero-at-maca\/","title":{"rendered":"Kara Walker in the Michael Jenkins Collection and Javier Romero at MACA."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The temporary exhibition will be a journey through his career over the last three decades and will be the largest presentation of his work in Spain to date. Walker&#8217;s work today is necessary and essential, and so evocative: strong, forceful, hard and, at the same time, of great beauty.<br \/>\nKara Walker is one of the most outstanding artists of her generation and one of the most interesting on the international art scene, with a complex oeuvre that analyses, in sometimes chaotic scenes, questions of race, identity, power and desire, always used as systems of oppression and subjugation, across centuries and continents.<br \/>\nThe exhibition is made possible by the extensive representation of Kara Walker&#8217;s work in the MACA&#8217;s Michael Jenkins and Javier Romero Collection and a series of pieces brought in from New York. It is curated by Rosa M\u00aa Castells and produced by the MACA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free admission<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The MACA provides a service of dynamic visits for groups, both to the permanent collections and to the temporary exhibition, by prior reservation on the telephone 965213156 or by email <a href=\"mailto:educacion@maca-alicante.es\">educacion@maca-alicante.es<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>By prior reservation: Tuesday to Friday and any afternoon of the week (except Mondays, rest days and Fridays)<\/li>\n<li>Without prior appointment: Sundays at 12.00h (except the second Sundays of each month)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These visits can be made for the following <strong>groups<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>School groups (nursery, primary, secondary, high school and vocational training)<\/li>\n<li>University groups<\/li>\n<li>Groups with special needs<\/li>\n<li>Adult groups (minimum 8 people)<\/li>\n<li>Families (minimum 8 people)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Opening hours September- June:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mondays: closed<\/li>\n<li>Tuesdays to Saturdays: from 10:00 to 20:00h<\/li>\n<li>Sundays and public holidays: from 10:00 to 14:00h<\/li>\n<li>The Museum will be closed on 24th June for the Bonfires of San Juan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Opening times July &#8211; August:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mondays: closed<\/li>\n<li>Tuesdays to Saturdays: 11:00h to 20:00h<\/li>\n<li>Sundays and public holidays: 10:00h to 14:00h<\/li>\n<li>This timetable may be extended throughout the year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The temporary exhibition will be a journey through his career over the last three decades and will be the largest presentation of his work in Spain to date. Walker&#8217;s work today is necessary and essential, and so evocative: strong, forceful, hard and, at the same time, of great beauty. Kara Walker is one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":308055,"template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[738,739,771],"class_list":["post-308062","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-culture","mec_category-exhibitions","mec_category-performing-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.alicanteturismo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/308062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.alicanteturismo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.alicanteturismo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.alicanteturismo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.alicanteturismo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/308062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.alicanteturismo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.alicanteturismo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.alicanteturismo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308062"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.alicanteturismo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=308062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}