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Love her. Did you know Carrie Mae Weems is a 1988 Public Art Fund artist? 

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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Carrie Mae Weems. A new retrospective exhibition of Weems’s work titled, “Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video,” opened last week at Nashville’s Frist Center for the Visual Arts.

Weems’ best-known work is almost certainly the “Kitchen Table Series” (1990), a series of photographs that tells a family story. While the piece includes text panels, Weems doesn’t tell us precisely what’s happening in the pictures, she just shows us the images and a broad narrative. The narrative is general enough that viewers are likely to ‘fill in’ specifics from their own lives. It may be Weems’s strongest, most open-ended work. In this Art21 video on ArtBabble, she discussed what motivated the work. The entire series and a set of installation pictures is on Weems’s website. 

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Image: Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (Man smoking) from “Kitchen Table Series,” 1990. Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.