The now extinct Domino Sugar Factory opened up its usually closed doors to invite visitors to see Kara Walker's impressive a Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby, a 35-foot-high woman-sphynx made of four tons of sugar. The wall plaque for the exhibition reads briefly, "An homage to the unpaid and overworked artisans who have refined our sweet tastes from the cane fields to the kitchens of the new world on the occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant."
Here's how visitors reacted to her works of art: