"Carrie Mae Weems was a logical choice," Barron explains. He is showing the entirety of her "The Kitchen Table Series" (1990). "I am struck by the deep humanity of these pictures.Read more »
Weems, the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and famous for her self-portraits and social documentary on view at institutions like the Guggenheim and the Museum of Modern Art, hopes that “GracRead more »
Carrie Mae Weems accepted the 2016 National Artist Award at Anderson Ranch Arts Center’s 50th anniversary celebration...as part of Anderson Ranch’s 2016 Summer Series of art talks, she reflected on Read more »
For years, Faith Ringgold was best known in the art world as a maker of gorgeous painted quilts and as an author and illustrator of children’s books...Read more »
The show quotes the former New York mayor Ed Koch in its title and expands on a project that the American artist Martha Rosler initiated in 1989 titled "If You Lived Here…" that dealt with gentrRead more »
Aperture Magazine‘s first issue dedicated to African American lives as represented by the medium of photography, “Vision & Justice,” was published last month.Read more »
Consistently in print for 25 years, Tar Beach is a mainstay of the Random House Children’s Books backlist, observed Knopf associate publishing director Melanie Cecka Nolan.Read more »
