Weems’s essay is excerpted from Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces.
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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.
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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.
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Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“I can’t return to normal. I can’t watch the same life come back. The reptile must be stopped outright.”
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In Richmond, Tracing the “Great Force” of American Racism
Taking a cue from James Baldwin, an exhibition considers the way that American racism moves forward — from the arrival of the first ship carrying enslaved Africans to the insidious ways it has trickled through the capillaries of American culture.
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Carrie Mae Weems Brings Her Interpretation of Antigone to Los Angeles
Using music, spoken word, and video, artist Carrie Mae Weems updates this classic story for a contemporary context in her theatrical production Past Tense.
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Refrigerated Dreams: A Work in Progress by Nona Hendryx, Carrie Mae Weems, Francesca Harper, and Niegel Smith
An immersive, multimedia installation and concert that transforms Joe’s Pub into the dinner party of the season.
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Kehinde Wiley’s Pantheon of Black Artists
In his new show at Sean Kelly Gallery, the artist has begun to create a register of contemporary black visual artists.
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The Future Is (Still) Female: Feminist Art for the 21st Century
The Future Is Female focuses primarily on the work of women artists who came of age after the Women’s Art Movement.
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On Election Day, Revisiting Carrie Mae Weems’s Endorsement of Hillary Clinton
Carrie Mae Weems presents the country as a place of division, a bubbling brew of hope and desperation and love and hate.