Carrie Mae Weems, Portrait of Myself as an Intellectual Revolutionary, gelatin silver print, 1988 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee / © Carrie Mae Weems)
Who: Carrie Mae Weems, Jarrett Earnest
What: Live virtual discussion and Q&A
Where: National Academy of Design Zoom
When: Tuesday, August 17, free with RSVP, 7:00
Why: The National Academy of Design continues its “RE:” video series August 17 with Oregon-born artist Carrie Mae Weems, who will be speaking with show creator and host Jarrett Earnest. A National Academician and MacArthur Genius, Weems has been busy during the pandemic, making the hypnotic short film The Baptism with Carl Hancock Rux and hosting a podcast for the Whitney, “Artists Among Us,” in which she speaks with a wide range of artists, curators, and writers, including Glenn Ligon, Bill T. Jones, Luc Sante, Jessamyn Fiore, An-My Lê, and Adam Weinberg, focusing on David Hammons’s Day’s End, an homage to Gordon Matta-Clark.
Weems is best known for such highly influential photographic projects as “The Kitchen Table Series,” “Family Pictures and Stories,” “The Louisiana Project,” “Constructing History,” and “Museums,” several of which are currently on view in the Gagosian exhibition “Social Works.” Author, editor, curator, and educator Earnest has previously talked with Harmony Hammond, William T. Williams, Kay WalkingStick, Dorothea Rockburne, and Alison Saar, with David Diao scheduled for September 14; all episodes can be seen here after their initial broadcast.