From star-studded ads to lavish halftime shows, the Super Bowl is equal parts spectacle and football. Cerebral fine art is not usually part of the game, but that’s about to change this Sunday. For Super Bowl LVII, the National Football League (NFL) has partnered with artist Hank Willis Thomas to debut Opportunity (reflection), a large sculpture that explores struggle and hope at the intersection of photography, pop culture, and sports.
The work is part of Thomas’s Punctum series, where the artist isolates a portion of an image and transforms it into sculpture. The series meditates on French philosopher Roland Barthes’s photographic theory of the
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