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Kehinde Wiley’s Pantheon of Black Artists

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney June 9, 2017June 9, 2017

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

Avatar photo by Emily Elizabeth Goodman May 27, 2017May 26, 2017

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

by Christopher Snow Hopkins November 8, 2016November 8, 2016

Carrie Mae Weems presents the country as a place of division, a bubbling brew of hope and desperation and love and hate.

Posted inPerformance

Carrie Mae Weems Updates Antigone’s Story of Defiance

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney October 25, 2016October 26, 2016

Carrie Mae Weems has brought the play’s undying themes to new life with her work Past Tense, which combines song, text, reading, and projected video.

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Artist Carrie Mae Weems Makes a Pro-Hillary Clinton Video

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne October 4, 2016October 4, 2016

Inspired by Obama’s address to the Congressional Black Caucus, artist Carrie Mae Weems has created a video plea to vote for Hillary Clinton this November.

Posted inBooks

Exploring New York City’s Silent Shores

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 29, 2016February 22, 2017

The 600 miles of New York City’s shoreline that secured its status as a center of trade in the 18th century now host some of its more forgotten spaces.

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From Flint with Love, Art of the African Diaspora

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli July 2, 2016July 5, 2016

Unlike many notable private art collections that serve the public good only after they have been donated to a museum (or turned into museums of their own), the Mott-Warsh Collection was conceived to fulfill a larger social purpose.

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The Politics of Seeing, Being, and Visibility in Photography

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney June 20, 2016June 20, 2016

It doesn’t seem right to call the latest issue of Aperture — its first issue dedicated to African American lives as represented by the medium of photography — a magazine. It is a powerhouse book; it does so much heavy lifting.

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“Art Is a Demanding Mistress”: Carrie Mae Weems Delivers a Poetic Commencement Speech

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne May 18, 2016May 23, 2016

On Wednesday, at Manhattan’s famed Radio City Music Hall, artist Carrie Mae Weems delivered a powerful commencement address to 1,100 graduates of the School of Visual Arts.

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A Sprawling Show of Artists as Social Critics

by Sarah Rose Sharp March 16, 2016March 31, 2016

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Spanning several media, much of the work in Us Is Them makes social commentary from the perspective of underrepresented populations. Notably, the show features some of the biggest names in contemporary African-American art, bringing the focus on the fraught nature of black existence in the US.

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Carrie Mae Weems Brings Change to the Guggenheim

Avatar photo by Zeba Blay February 24, 2014February 27, 2014

This year, Carrie Mae Weems gets the distinctive honor of becoming the first African-American woman to have a retrospective at the Guggenheim — her first major exhibition at any New York museum, ever. It’s one of those honors that sits at an awkward intersection, both disappointing and profound.

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All the Feelings: Jennifer Doyle’s ‘Hold It Against Me’

by Alexis Clements February 10, 2014February 14, 2014

What is included in the field of a work of art? The medium may be painting or performance, the subject matter may be landscapes or the death of a lover, and the aesthetics may come from a particular tradition or vein of art. But beyond that, when we discuss a work of art, what else can or should be included in that conversation?

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The latest episodes of the PBS documentary series explore the intersection between play and artistry, as well as the world of small objects and the artists who make them.

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