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Carrie Mae Weems: The Shape of Things Children's Books attract the energy we wantCarrie Mae Weems has often confronted the uncomfortable truths of racism and race relations over the course of her nearly 40 year career. In The Shape of Things she focuses her unflinching gaze at what she describes as the circuslike quality of contemporary American political life. For this new work, Weems created a seven part film projected onto a Cycloramaa panoramic style cylindrical screen that dates to the 19th centurywhere she addresses the