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History Doesn’t Laugh was a solo exhibition by Hank Willis Thomas which highlighted the artist’s interest in representing photographic ideas through unconventional materials.

For this exhibition, Thomas scoured numerous publications and archives looking for graphics, images and audio that exemplify, through popular culture, South Africa’s recent history. The result was a fascinating combination of installations, objects, and prints that present the visual complexities of the not-so-distant past.

Thomas is known for his extensive use of archival visual records to work through ideas that address the social constructions of race, gender, and commodity. He uses the black body in advertising to articulate how these ideas are generated in perpetuated in consumer culture. 

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Come join the Black Actors Guild for a brilliant night of improv comedy! Where else are you gonna laugh this hard?

Painter, if you paint with love, paint me some black angels now For all good blacks in heaven, painter show us that you care