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Hank Willis Thomas Dives Into the Rivers of History

by AX Mina August 16, 2023August 17, 2023

Using retroreflective material, the artist’s latest works look at the way that rivers both carry and conceal as a means of examining history.

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What Do Bostonians Think of the New MLK Monument?

Avatar photo by Jessica Shearer January 25, 2023February 6, 2023

Despite the deluge of online memes, reactions on the ground were mostly positive, but some think the work lacks context.

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A New MLK Sculpture Draws Mixed Reactions

Avatar photo by Taylor Michael January 17, 2023January 18, 2023

Some are praising Hank Willis Thomas’s artwork depicting MLK and Coretta Scott King’s embrace, but others question the design.

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Hank Willis Thomas Memorializes MLK and Coretta Scott King’s Love

Avatar photo by Billie Anania January 15, 2023April 17, 2023

The sculptural tribute was installed in a Boston park, the city where the couple first met.

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Hank Willis Thomas Gives an Infamous Modern Art Diagram a Postcolonial Update

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian October 1, 2020November 5, 2020

The conceptual artist provides a much needed update to Alfred J. Barr, Jr’s well-known chart.

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Hank Willis Thomas on Black Survival Guide and Creative Civic Action

Avatar photo by Karen Chernick August 21, 2020November 5, 2020

Thomas and fellow artist Ebony Brown talk about interdependence and How to Live Through a Police Riot, an archival handbook that inspired his 2018 series.

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Hank Willis Thomas Opens Up Space for Interpretation, Which Is Sometimes Risky

Avatar photo by Erin Langner November 26, 2019November 25, 2019

When we have more opportunity to interact with art on our own terms, there are more places to hide from its difficult truths, particularly viewers who have the privilege to do so.

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When the Arts Resist Imperialism

Avatar photo by Sharmistha Ray September 7, 2019September 9, 2019

The exhibition Clapping with Stones is a chilling reminder that the history of art is also the history of power.

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Studio Museum in Harlem and DC Arts High School Receive Historic Gift of Over 650 Contemporary Works

Avatar photo by Jasmine Weber October 9, 2018

The late civil rights activist and Black arts patron Peggy Cooper Cafritz has bestowed the “largest gift ever made of contemporary art by artists of African descent” to the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Duke Ellington School of the Arts.

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Hank Willis Thomas and Yinka Shonibare Among Artists Proposing Major MLK Jr. Monument on Boston Common

Avatar photo by Jasmine Weber September 25, 2018September 26, 2018

Barbara Chase-Riboud, David Adjaye, Hank Willis Thomas, Yinka Shonibare, and Wodiczko are among the finalists of the monumental project.

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The Guggenheim Calls for Greater Civility in Public Discourse While Avoiding Its Own Problems

Avatar photo by Zachary Small May 11, 2018May 14, 2018

The Guggenheim Museum’s two days of talks for its “Culture and Its Discontents” event resembled, at its best points, a mediocre rendition of Kum ba yah.

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Pratt Presents a Conversation on Creativity and Identity with Questlove and Hank Willis Thomas

by Pratt Institute April 3, 2018April 11, 2018

Moderated by Ben Greenman, this free event will be hosted at Pratt Institute on Tuesday, May 1, at 7:30pm.

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Iranian Artist Minoo Emami’s Retrospective Opens at the Hartford Art School Galleries
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Iranian Artist Minoo Emami’s Retrospective Opens at the Hartford Art School Galleries

Featuring two decades of interdisciplinary art along with new work created in response to the ongoing Women’s Rights Movement in Iran, the exhibition is on view in Hartford, Connecticut.

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