There’s an article in The New York Times about the first comprehensive retrospective of Carrie Mae Weems’s career opening at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville on Friday. Given that Weems’s series Not Manet’s Type inspires this blog, I thought I would highlight the article and Weems’s work, featured on her website, today.
Category Archives: Series
Models Monday: Books and the Generous Poor
I watched the 2009 Academy Award nominated documentary film Trouble the Water this weekend and it was an enthralling feature. The film combines footage that Kim Roberts captures while she and her husband Scott are trapped inside their home in the 9th ward as Hurricane Katrina bears down on New Orleans. The film also chronicles theContinue reading “Models Monday: Books and the Generous Poor”
Back-to-School Series: School Supplies
Searching for school supplies might be the one time when I enjoy shopping. I actually think that good school supplies can contribute to an improved attitude and inclination towards doing school work. Crayola 64s prove this point. Anyone who has ever received a box of Crayola 64s remembers what it was like to have theseContinue reading “Back-to-School Series: School Supplies”
Models Monday: Race and Forgiveness
My relationship with my father was a hard thing for me to describe to people who only knew me as being estranged from him; so I usually didn’t talk about it. It was hard to explain how I knew that my father adored me, that he loved me as much as he was capable; IContinue reading “Models Monday: Race and Forgiveness”
Back-to-School: Thoughtful Excursions
(Caption: Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Tennessee.) My friend Julia and I were casually chatting on our way to a meeting when she shared with me the details of a trip she had taken with J.P., her son. I was taken aback by how beautiful her trip was in its thoughtfulness and its execution. Julia always doesContinue reading “Back-to-School: Thoughtful Excursions”
Models Monday: Doing Something Hard
Only Halle, who had watched her movements closely for the last four years, knew that to get in and out of bed she had to lift her thigh with both hands, which was why he spoke to Mr. Garner about buying her out of there so she could sit down for a change. Sweet boy.Continue reading “Models Monday: Doing Something Hard”
Back-to-School: An Urgency to Know
In the aftermath of Seung-Hui Cho’s shooting spree that claimed the lives of 32 people and physically injured at least 17 others at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007, The Chronicle of Higher Education published an interesting series of reflections on the matter. They asked scholars, artists, and college presidents to imagine the commencement addressContinue reading “Back-to-School: An Urgency to Know”
Models Monday: Beauty and Everyday Life
Earlier this summer, I read Maurice Berger’s article in The New York Times about the discovery of a series of Gordon Parks photographs believed to have been lost. The photographs chronicled the daily life of an extended family in Mobile, Alabama in 1956. According to Berger, the found photographs expand upon themes established in thatContinue reading “Models Monday: Beauty and Everyday Life”
Back-To-School Series
Summer has ended for children in the U.S. South. The school bells chimed nearly a week ago and have called them back inside; so with another season comes another series. Thus, I have planned a series of posts marking the occasion. I look forward to sharing my Back-to-School Series featuring an interview with a high school mathContinue reading “Back-To-School Series”
Models Monday: An End to the Games
I have truly enjoyed the 2012 London Olympic Games (despite NBC’s best efforts to drain whatever enthusiasm I could sustain with their tape delays and sentimental, predictable narratives ostensibly of human interest but completely annoying to sports enthusiasts eager to actually see the competition whose results we had already glimpsed–but I digress). The athletes, particularlyContinue reading “Models Monday: An End to the Games”
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