Posted Thursday, January 26, 2012
Dee Perry speaks with acclaimed and provocative photographer Hank Willis Thomas who spotlights his controversial images at The Cleveland Museum of Art this Saturday. We also take you behind the scenes of a dance described as part vaudeville and part toy store after midnight from The Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Company performing this weekend at PlayhouseSquare. Plus, we meet Mato Nanji the Native American blues man who brings his band Indigenous back to the Beachland Ballroom tonight.
Photo credit: ''B®anded,'' Branded Head, 2003. Hank Willis Thomas, from the book ''Pitch Blackness'' (Aperture, 2008)
Arts and Culture, Dance, Music, Photography
Hank Willis Thomas, photographer
Barbara Tannenbaum, Cleveland Museum of Art
Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak, Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Company
Mato Nanji, Indigenous
Hank Willis Thomas speaks at The Cleveland Museum of Art this Saturday Jan 28 at 2:30pm
The Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Company makes Its Ohio Debut Jan. 28-29 at PlayhouseSquare
Indigenous performs tonight at The Beachland Ballroom
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