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BOMB THE ROOT: The Carrie Mae Weems Interview

Like so many African-American artists, Carrie Mae Weems’ artistic career began at the Studio Museum in Harlem. In the mid-1970s, back when the museum occupied a loft “above a Kentucky Fried Chicken,” ...

How Will This Moment Be Remembered? Carrie Mae Weems Has Some Ideas

In a time of intense turmoil, the venerable artist's performance piece Contested Sites of Memory asks Americans to think ...
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Artist Conversation with Carrie Mae Weems

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Listen to legendary artist Carrie Mae Weems discuss her career, key artworks, what inspires her to create, as well as her exhibition “Carrie Mae ...
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Photographer Carrie Mae Weems confronts the ‘changing same’ in new work

Stepping into Fraenkel Gallery to see “Painting the Town,” the new photo series by Carrie Mae Weems, I had a moment of confusion. Was I looking at an abstract expressionist painting by Mark Rothko ...
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Carrie Mae Weems : the Hampton Project / by Vivian Patterson ; with essays by Frederick Rudolph, Constance W. Glenn, Deborah Willis-Kennedy, Jeanne Zeidler ; interview by ...

Catalog of an exhibition held at Willliams College and at 5 other places through Dec. 1, 2002. "The photographs on the previous pages and all full-page photographs hereafter are installation images ...