Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment (Primary Title)

Carrie Mae Weems, American, born 1953 (Artist)

2008
American
Media-Based Art
Digital color video
Storage (measurements of box the video is housed): 10 × 6 7/8 × 1 3/4 in. (25.4 × 17.46 × 4.45 cm)
2019.287
Not on view
Gabe W. Burton Fund, National Endowment for the Arts Fund for American Art and Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Endowment
Carrie Mae Weems: Social Studies, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain, May 20–September 19, 2010. Curated by Elvira Dyangani Ose.

Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, September 21, 2012–January 13, 2013. Traveling to: Portland Art Museum, Oregon, February 2–May 19, 2013; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, June 30–September 29, 2013; Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, October 16, 2013–January 5, 2014; Guggenheim Museum, New York, January 24--May 14, 2014. Curated by Katie Delmez.

Carrie Mae Weems: Considered, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, February 16 – June 12, 2016.

All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, October 8, 2016 – February 12, 2017.

Carrie Mae Weems: I once knew a girl..., The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art at the Hutchins Center, Cambridge August 18 - February 7, 2017.

Say it Loud: Art, History, Rebellion, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit October 2017- January 2, 2018.

Carrie Mae Weems: Strategies of Engagement, The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, September 10 - December 13, 2018. Traveled to: Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania, January 13 - May 5, 2019.

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