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Exhibition by Carrie Mae Weems opens at Logan Center Exhibitions
Installation view of Carrie Mae Weems: A Land of Broken Dreams.
CHICAGO, IL
.-Logan Center Exhibitions at the University of Chicago is presenting Carrie Mae Weems: A Land of Broken Dreams in partnership with the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago as part of the multi-site exhibition Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40.
On view July 17December 12, 2021, Carrie Mae Weems: A Land of Broken Dreams features an array of media and objectsphotography, video, texts, bric-a-brac, and furniturethrough which Weems reimagines the Black Panther Partys programs for young people in Chicago during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In the main gallery, visitors are invited to browse, sit, and explore a classroom setting replete with desks, chairs, books, a blackboard, View-Masters, and posters of historic Black leaders. A smaller gallery, designed to resemble a theate