Hammer Lecture Series Presents Hank Willis Thomas
Hammer Museum - Santa Monica, CA
Event: 10/2/08
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On Thursday, October 2nd 2008 at 7pm, one of today’s most compelling emerging artists, Hank Willis Thomas will discuss the work in his first monograph, Pitch Blackness (Aperture), featuring his highly provocative series B®ANDED, addressing the commodification of African-American male identity →

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