Weems, Carrie Mae
For Black Artists, the Great Migration Is an Unfinished Journey
JACKSON, Miss. — Midday, midweek, in mid-90 degrees midsummer, the streets of a downtown historic district of this Southern capital are all but empty. They’re like a film set, perfect in period detail but past-use and abandoned. A patch of sidewalk embedded with the mosaicked words “Bon-Ton Café” marks the spot of what was, a […]
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Carrie Mae Weems Sets the Stage and Urges Action
Weems’s analysis of our current political landscape will be familiar to anyone who has been paying attention over the past few years — including, I would imagine, most of those who visit the show on Park Avenue. What is more compelling are the visual and historical connections she makes — often insightful, sometimes funny, and […]
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With Armory Show, the World Is Catching Up to Carrie Mae Weems
Now, of course, the entire nation is confronting issues of police violence against Black people; the exclusion of people of color from the museum canon; and the lack of Black and brown representation in Hollywood. But those who have followed Weems over the 40 years of her practice — through photography, video, installation, music and […]
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