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Article: Hank Willis Thomas at Lisa Dent.
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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Hank Willis Thomas's exhibition "Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America" was a poignant and layered exploration of racial typing in our era of hypercapitalism. Consisting of 10 largescale Lightjet prints, a sculptural pendant and a short video, the show presented a cohesive series of meditations on the historical formation and dissemination of stereotypes. The prints are reproductions of familiar magazine ad campaigns from the 1970s to the present in which African-Americans figure prominently. Willis Thomas has digitally removed the corporate logos from the ads, allowing their ideological underpinnings to come through unencumbered by overbearing product ...
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Article: Original Comedy King Dolemite hospitalized
Westside Gazette;
June 29, 2006 ;
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...LOS ANGELES, CA. - Rudy Ray Moore, aka Dolemite, aka Petey Wheatstraw, the Devil's Son-in-Law, has been hospitalized in Inglewood, Calif.. Suffering from a serious undisclosed illness ...
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