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Podcast: The Institute of Black Imagination.
Episode: E28. Dissolving the Illusion with Artist Hank Willis Thomas.
Description: Today’s episode is with conceptual artist, Hank Willis Thomas. Hailing from the mean streets of Plainfield, NJ… That’s a joke, by the way,. Hank’s body of work explores themes related to perspective, identity, commodity, media, and popular culture, Hank is one of the most celebrated artists of his generation.  The son of musician and physicist Hank Thomas, and artist, photographer, historian, curator and educator, Deborah Willis, one could say that art runs though Hanks’s veins. Growing up amongst the stacks of Harlem’s Schomburg Library, where his mother served as curator of photographs and as exhibiti...