The Un-Private Collection: Hank Willis Thomas + Robin D. G. Kelley
Artist/activist Hank Willis Thomas will speak with his mentor and former teacher, UCLA professor and noted author Robin D. G. Kelley about Thomas’s art practice and his activism as co-founder of the organization For Freedoms.
Sunday, Sept. 18, 2 p.m.
$20
Artist/activist Hank Willis Thomas will speak with his mentor and former teacher, UCLA professor and noted author Robin D. G. Kelley about Thomas’s art practice and his activism as co-founder of the organization For Freedoms. The Broad recently acquired America (2021) by Thomas, which is on view along with his work 15,580 (2017), 2018 in The Broad’s special exhibition This is Not America’s Flag from May 21 through September 25, 2022. In America, Thomas dismantles the US flag, reforming its red and white bars to spell “America,” prodding the inequity present in the fabric of the nation, past and present. In 15,580 (2017), Thomas commemorates victims of gun violence, each star representing a life lost in the United States in 2017.
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