#Hank Willis Thomas

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Kama Mama, Kama Binti (Like Mother, Like Daughter) 1971

Hank Willis Thomas

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Seeker, Photo by Hank Willis Thomas, 2012

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Art Production Fund Gala part 3

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“All Power to All People.” Art installation by Hank Willis Thomas at Burning Man 2018. Photo by Christine B.

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Hank Willis Thomas

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Smitten! ❤️🤗

Absolutely smitten with Hank Willis Thomas’s “And They Called It ‘Buppy Love.’” 

Happy Valentines Day, everyone! 

📷 Hank Willis Thomas (American, born 1976). And They Called It "Buppy Love" 1983/2007, 1983/2007. Digital print, 36 x 27 3/4 in. (91.4 x 70.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Mary Smith Dorward Fund and gift of Robert Smith, by exchange, 2010.18.16. © artist or artist's estate

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Hank Willis Thomas The Embrace, 2023

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© Hank Willis Thomas | Financial Times

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Hank Willis Thomas

[yearningforunity]

Farewell Uncle Tom 1971

Hank Willis Thomas

[kamikazeshakedown]

Yesterday, I visited the Rubell Museum in Washington, DC, and it did not disappoint. 

Artists featured: Kehinde Wiley, Vaughn Spann, Keith Haring (x2), Matthew Day Jackson, Hank Willis Thomas (x2), Tschabalala Self, Jenny Holzer (x2).

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the embrace

the photograph that inspired the monument... 

MLK Jr. hugging Coretta after learning he had won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize 

conceptual artist, Hank Willis Thomas, Boston Common 2023

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Hank Willis Thomas (b. 1976) - Society of the Spectacle (Spectrum IV) 2019. - source Phillips.

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Sexypink NEWS - The Making of a controversial work in progress.

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  bearing liThe monument, designed by Black artist Hank Willis Thomas, is two stories high, and the plaza's width is about double that. Imari Paris Jeffries, executive director of Embrace said the "scale and magnitude is one of the thing that makes this monument awe-inspiring when you see it."

I really enjoyed this tour of a scupture with Rupa Shenoy and the sculpture Hank Willis Thomas. What I'd seen before was a photo and maybe some snide hot-takes. A radio tour allows us to get inside the work in a way a 2-D photograph cannot. My hunch is this scupture will be treasured for a very long time.

Hank Willis Thomas

Walla Walla Foundary

Update:

Wow! I got somethings wrong. First of all Rupa Shenoy is with Imari K. Paris Jeffries Executive Direcot of Embrace Boston.

Listening to this segment again I realize how the memory got registered in my mind is so different from the actual segment. It’s not that my imagination of the sculpture is wrong, it’s that my imagination colored over what Shenoy and Jeffries actually said.

Last night I went to Twitter to read reactions to the piece. I am very surprised how the memorial triggers disgust for many people, including a sense of inappropriate eroticism. 

There is also great bitterness about that Martin Luther King, Jr. has been molded into a symbol unlike his witness. An example is Ron DeSantis invoking Martin Luther King Jr., grumble, grumble.

The critical reactions to the piece actually given me a deeper appreciation for it. The memorial engages our imaginations.

Here is how I imagined part of the radio tour:

Jeffries: “Lets go inside the sculpture.There is enough space for eight or more people.”

“How do you feel?”

Shenoy: “I feel I am being embraced, that I am a part of the embracing.”

Jeffries: “Look up. What do you see?”

Shenoy:  “I see the sky.”

Update Too:

I see what happened! The piece I heard first was this:  Embrace' lets viewers viscerally experience the love and legacy of MLK and Coretta Scott King. Both stories are nice. I am happy to discover my memory wasn’t so bad. But I don’t know how I got the wrong link--lol.