{"id":2182,"date":"2013-08-11T09:01:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T13:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=2182"},"modified":"2013-08-11T09:01:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T13:01:51","slug":"hank-willis-thomas-at-jack-shainman-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/11\/hank-willis-thomas-at-jack-shainman-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Hank Willis Thomas at Jack Shainman Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viewers have to look at just the right angle down a long, thick piece of Plexiglas to spy Hank Willis Thomas&rsquo; minstrel, a photo of a man painted half black and half white, then literally doubled by the material.&nbsp; Like similar characters photographed by the artist, a seemingly clear cover obstructs a clear view, a metaphor for how perceptions of race can obscure identity.&nbsp; (At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackshainman.com\/home.html\" title=\"Jack Shainman Gallery\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Shainman Galler<\/a>y&rsquo;s 24th Street space through Aug 17th). &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><em>Hank Willis Thomas, &lsquo;Invisible Man,&rsquo; Plexi block and a digital c-print on aluminum, 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/files.sendible.com\/3566828\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/files.sendible.com\/3566828\/original.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"0\" style=\"display:none;border:0;\" src=\"http:\/\/tracker.sendible.com\/messages\/54070a7f-3dde-41a0-a76f-f784404c1e6d?service=Wordpress&#038;f=2837624&#038;view=true\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viewers have to look at just the right angle down a long, thick piece of Plexiglas to spy Hank Willis Thomas&rsquo; minstrel, a photo of a man painted half black and half white, then literally doubled by the material.&nbsp; Like similar characters photographed by the artist, a seemingly clear cover obstructs a clear view, a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/11\/hank-willis-thomas-at-jack-shainman-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hank Willis Thomas at Jack Shainman Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[1619,8,143,18,1617,481,114,1621,570,1614,1620,1594,319,1616,17,1615,1618],"class_list":["post-2182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dont-miss","tag-america","tag-art","tag-art-tours","tag-artist","tag-black-and-white","tag-chelsea-gallery","tag-contemporary-art","tag-emory","tag-gallery-tours","tag-hank-willis-thomas","tag-history","tag-identity","tag-jack-shainman-gallery","tag-minstrel","tag-photography","tag-plexiglas","tag-race"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/file5.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-zc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2183,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions\/2183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}