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January 5th, 2013: In Conversation @ Brooklyn Museum, 8:30 p.m.
Images: Mickalene Thomas, Are You That Someone?, 2010 (Top) Carrie Mae Weems, “Mirror, Mirror” from “Ain’t Jokin’”, 1987–88. (Bottom)Artists Mickalene Thomas and Carrie Mae Weems talk with curator Eugenie Tsai about using their work to challenge conventional ideas of beauty, race, and gender.
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