Dr Carrie Mae Weems shares wisdom with SVA graduates

The artist Carrie Mae Weems dished out some wisdom to the new graduates of the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York as the speaker for this year’s commencement exercises, held Wednesday, 18 May, at Radio City Music Hall. “I should say I’d like to thank the Academy,” Weems joked, taking the podium. “You get to graduate at Radio City Music Hall. How fabulous is that?”
Weems quickly turned existential, pondering the question: “How do you measure a life?