*KGP has been given the remaining 40 copies of Carrie Mae Weems’ Brown University exhibition catalog. This book was designed by our dude Caleb Cain Marcus. get it while you can.

Published to accompany Weems’ campus-wide exhibition and to celebrate the opening of The Lindemann, REX Architects’ newly designed performing arts center for Brown University. The design evokes Brown University’s pioneering performing arts center  The Lindemann featuring a main hall with five ingenious and changeable floor configurations.Like The Lindemann’s main hall, Carrie Mae Weems: Varying Shades of Brown features five different interior sequences through which the influential American conceptual artist’s works can be experienced by the reader. The cover recalls the scalloped pattern of The Lindemann’s fluted aluminium panels of its exterior façade onto which Weems’ Remember to Dream artwork was projected.

Weems has been recognized with numerous prestigious awards, such as a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the US Department of State's Medal of Arts, and the Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome. The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation also honored her with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Her work is held in major collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston