"For us, the idea of having a work that has contradictions is very important—when, in affirming something, it includes itself and attacks itself. How can you put together all of these things that have nothing to do with each other? You use glue! Glue can be an idea, a word. You can use an ideological glue."
Carrie Mae Weems
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SEGMENT: Carrie Mae Weems in "Compassion" | “Narrative and storytelling is in the blood,” declares Carrie Mae Weems. | 0:00 | 10/07/2009 |
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EPISODE: "Compassion" | This episode features three artists — William Kentridge, Doris Salcedo, and Carrie Mae Weems — whose works explore conscience and the possibility of... | 0:00 | 10/07/2009 |
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SHORT: Carrie Mae Weems: "Roaming" | Carrie Mae Weems describes the impetus for her series "Roaming" (2006). An investigation into “the edifice of power,” Weems performed a series of... | 2:36 | 09/10/2010 |
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SHORT: Carrie Mae Weems: "The Kitchen Table Series" | Filmed in her Syracuse studio, artist Carrie Mae Weems discusses the impetus for her work "The Kitchen Table Series" (1990), a photographic... | 3:09 | 03/18/2011 |
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SHORT: Carrie Mae Weems: Thirteen Questions for Wynton Marsalis & Cornel West | As part of a panel discussion moderated by Baraka Sele at the 20th National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta, Georgia, artist Carrie Mae Weems poses... | 5:09 | 10/16/2009 |
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TRAILER: Season 5 of "Art in the Twenty-First Century" (2009) | Trailer for Season 5 of the Peabody Award-winning series, "Art in the Twenty-First Century" (premiered Fall 2009 on PBS). Featured artists... | 5:12 | 04/10/2009 |
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U.S. Department of State Honors Five Art21 Featured Artists | Beginning in November 2012, the U.S. Department of State celebrates the 50th anniversary of Art in Embassies (AIE), a program that facilitates the... | 5:54 | 11/29/2012 |
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Carrie Mae Weems & David Alan Grier: In Conversation | Carrie Mae Weems and David Alan Grier have an intimate discussion on a range of topics including childhood idols, the definition of blackness, race... | 8:54 | 06/25/2010 |
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