LACMA Acquires Vernon Collection of... Aug 14, 2008
LACMA's world-renowned collection of photography includes important works by Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, Alfred Stieglitz, Andr; Kert;sz, L;szl; Moholy-Nagy, Diane Arbus, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lee Friedlander, Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke, Sebasti;o Salgado, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Carrie Mae Weems. The Vernon Collection. (Suite101.com)
NBAF director Jul 19, 2008
You'd expect images by photographer Carrie Mae Weems, serigraphs and lithographs of work by Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden, prints by Elizabeth Catlett on the walls ... In a single glance you can take in works from Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ringgold, Carrie Mae Weems and tribal artists from Benin to Mozambique. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
National Black Arts Festival 20th Anniversary - Our Gift of Creativity to You Jun 13, 2008
Gladys Knight, Wynton Marsalis, Alice Walker, Judith Jamison, Hugh Masekela, Charles S. Dutton, Carrie Mae Weems, Los Hombres Calientes, Dr. Cornell West, and much much more ... Highlights of the Festival include appearances and performances by Gladys Knight, Wynton Marsalis and his trio, Alice Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Dr. Cornell West, Charles S. Dutton, Judith Jamison, Urban Bush Women, Ron K. Brown/EVIDENCE, and more ... HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 2008 NATIONAL BLACK ARTS FESTIVAL Visual Arts --... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
SENIOR ON THE MOVE: PATAPSCO May 30, 2008
Kathleen Calkins, Jones photography teacher, said he would do extensive research for his projects and was interested in the work of other photographers, such as Lorna Simpson, Richard Avedon and Carrie Mae Weems. He was like a sponge. (Dundalk Eagle, MD)
Overlooked But Groundbreaking Mar 15, 2008
As a curator, Sterling organized surveys of photographer Carrie Mae Weems and painters Sarah Charlesworth, Romaine Brooks and Alice Neel, as well as two rare retrospectives of Brazilian art. In addition, as the curator of contemporary art, she brought more photography, abstract painting and feminist art into the archives. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
More of this story Oct 27, 2007
Pieces on display include images by Todd Gray (above) and Carrie Mae Weems ... Recognized artists like Betye Saar, Charles Gaines, Dennis Callwood and Carrie Mae Weems are exhibited along with emerging talent. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Dawoud Bey's portraits put focus on teens Sep 23, 2007
Teenagers are tricky; images in the media tend to focus on them as troublemakers or, as Bey puts it in an interview with Carrie Mae Weems in the show's catalog, as "engines for a certain consumerism." More than anyone else, they invent and reinvent themselves, trying on styles, ideologies, and modes of expression to signify what's important to them - even if they don't know what that is. That's why this show frustrates: Trying to capture that wild mutability is like attempting to hold water in... (Boston Globe)
In Its 19th Season, the National Black Arts Festival Invites Audiences to Uncover Their Roots May 10, 2007
Original artworks from such artists as Romare Bearden, Robert S. Duncanson, Hale Woodruff, Benny Andrews, Carrie Mae Weems and Amalia Amaki, will be available for collectors to purchase. embrace opens at 7:30 pm, at Mason Murer Fine Art (199 Armour Drive, Atlanta, GA). (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Carrie Mae Weems's The Hampton Project raises old, uncomfortable questions quietly Mar 21, 2007
Armstrong stands behind his family in a photo that artist Carrie Mae Weems enlarged and printed onto a stretched canvas as part of her current Williams College Museum of Art installation, "The Hampton Project." Across the old image she printed, "With your missionary might/ you extended the hand of grace/ reaching down & snatching me/ up and out of myself.". With these words Weems acknowledges Armstrong's noble aims while indicting him. (Boston Globe -- Living)
