News
Artists and Poets Gather in Chelsea for “Cathartic” Night of Community
An election-night event featured free readings and performances staged around Carrie Mae Weems’s installation at Gladstone Gallery.
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News
Carrie Mae Weems Kitchen Table Photos Star in Kamala Harris Ad
The iconic images from Weems’s 1990 series appear in a recent video advertisement airing in key battleground states.
News
Carrie Mae Weems, Alex Katz, and Mark Bradford Among Recipients of National Medals of Arts
Japanese-American sculptor Ruth Asawa was awarded the honor posthumously.
Art
Can Visual Artists Get People to Vote?
Artists including Carrie Mae Weems and Shepard Fairey are joining large-scale campaigns to encourage voter turnout this election season.
Art
A Fitting Tribute to Carrie Mae Weems's Monumentality
A show at the Barbican Art Gallery reveals the importance of considering the politics of display when it comes to an artist who consistently implores us to do so.
Art
Women’s Photography as a Tool of Resistance
What is a feminist picture? A MoMA exhibition is the latest to attempt to answer this question.
Art
Carrie Mae Weems Assesses History in Real-Time
A tenuous relationship exists in Weems’s work between glamour and guts; yet neither attribute suffers on behalf of the other.
Books
Carrie Mae Weems’s Visual Response to Sam Cooke's “A Change Is Gonna Come”
Weems’s essay is excerpted from Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces.
Books
The Stunning Scope of Carrie Mae Weems’s Vision
A new book offers a deep dive into Weems’s influential career.
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Work by Carrie Mae Weems Acquired by National Gallery, Displayed With Memorial to Black Union Soldiers
Two panels of Weems’s work feature a photograph of a 19th-century memorial to the soldiers in the 54th Regiment, now on display beside the original sculpture.
Interview
Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“We’re all now isolated in our pods but still very susceptible to the outside noise of the world: I am guilty of this.”
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Carrie Mae Weems Takes Over Lincoln Center to Highlight COVID-19 Impact on Communities of Color
Resist Covid / Take 6! pairs text with iconic photographs by Weems to underscore the importance of preventive measures, dispel myths about the virus, and thank essential workers.