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At the Obama Presidential Center, Carrie Mae Weems Is Using Jazz to Tell a Uniquely American Story
Carrie Mae Weems’s “The Cool Blue Wind” is one of 28 site-specific works created by 30 artists, including Mark Bradford, Maya Lin, Julie Mehretu, and the late Richard Hunt, for the 19-acre site on Chicago’s South Side.
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According to Vogue’s source item, At the Obama Presidential Center, Carrie Mae Weems Is Using Jazz to Tell a Uniquely American Story, Carrie Mae Weems’s “The Cool Blue Wind” is one of 28 site-specific works created by 30 artists, including Mark Bradford, Maya Lin, Julie Mehretu, and the late Richard Hunt, for the 19-acre site on Chicago’s South Side.
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- At the Obama Presidential Center, Carrie Mae Weems Is Using Jazz to Tell a Uniquely American StoryVogue - 2026-06-12T15:41:39+00:00
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