Name/Title
The culture : hip hop & contemporary art in the 21st centuryEntry/Object ID
N6497.C85 2023Description
Accompanying a groundbreaking exhibition originating at the Baltimore Museum of Art, this book captures the extraordinary influence of hip hop, which has driven innovations in music, visual and performing arts, fashion, and technology and grown into a global phenomenon since its emergence in the 1970s. It features approximately 70 objects by both established and emerging artists, design houses, streetwear icons and musicians working in a wide range of mediums to demonstrate hip hop's proliferation from the street to the runway, the studio to the museum gallery, and countless sites in between. The exhibition also explores how hip hop has and continues to challenge structures of power, dominant cultural narratives, and political and social systems of oppression.Context
Catalog of an exhibition organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Saint Louis Art Museum and held at those venues April 5-July 16, 2023 and August 26, 2023-January 1, 2024, respectively; the exhibition subsequently traveled to the Cincinnati Art Museum, June 28-September 29, 2024, and to the Art Gallery of Ontario, November 23, 2024-March 23, 2025.Lexicon
Search Terms
african americans in art, art and popular culture--history--21st century, black people in art, hip hop in artLegacy Lexicon
Category
Exhibition catalogBook Details
Author
Asma Naeem, Gamynne Guillotte, Hannah Klemm, Andréa PurnellPublisher
Gregory R. Miller & Co., Baltimore Museum of Art, Saint Louis Art MuseumPlace Published
City
New York, Baltimore, St. Louis, MODate Published
2023ISBN
9781941366547Notes
Length: 306General Notes
Note Type
ContentsNote
Directors' foreword and acknowledgments -- Hip hop and contemporary art in the 21st century -- All eyes on us / Ebony L. Haynes -- Introduction / Asma Naeem, Gamynne Guillotte, Hannah Klemm, and Andréa Purnell -- Watch the throne / Asma Naeem -- Todd Boyd -- Follow me into a solo: Further ruminations on hip hop and black politics / Lester Spence -- In the tradition: Basquiat, Bebop, and hip hop / Jordana Moore Saggese -- Spinning hip hop in museums across the globe / Aurélie Clemente-Ruiz, René de Guzman, Martha Diaz, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Franklin Sirmans, Carol Tulloch, and Lydia Yee -- What is hiphop? / Greg Tate -- Works of art -- Styling -- Misa Hylton -- Swagger defined: The labeling, history, and perception of hip-hop style past and present / Elena Romero -- Notes on thot camp and the end of empire / Jillian Hernandez -- AJ Girard and Murjoni Merriweather -- Hip hop's mourning aesthetics / Rikki Byrd -- The pain of real art / D. Waktins -- Works of art -- Stage -- "I suck at love": Nas, Jay-Z, and black male vulnerability / Ekow Eshun -- Power bottom aesthetics / madison moore -- Sean Bankhead -- Women, hip hop, and social discourse in South Africa / Msia Kibona Clark -- We lived in the club / Devin Allen -- Hip hop as a global political movement / Michael Holman -- From "warring" / Simone White -- Works of art -- Beat -- The first rapper on the internet / Salome Asega -- How rap's sound-cloud generation changed the music business forever / Alphonse Pierre -- Okay, I like it, Picasso: Graphing modern art and rap's linguistic directions / David A. M. Goldberg and Tahir Hemphill -- Jacolby Satterwhite -- Hip hop in academia: Honoring the past while looking to the future / Wendel Patrick -- How auto-tune revolutionized the sound of popular music / Simon Reynolds -- The sound of becoming a man / Seph Rodney -- Works of art -- Flow -- Notes on trap / Jesse McCarthy -- On hip hop and poetry + rhythm and poetry / Danez Smith -- Japanese hip hop: A mixtape / Noriko Manabe -- "The pressure is on!": Indigenous storytelling, language, and lyricism in hip hop / Lindsay Knight and Charity Marsh -- Shaheem Sanchez -- The gospel of audacity / Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr. -- Works of art -- Walls -- The architecture of hip hop / Sekou Cooke -- A wall of their own: How graffiti grrlz style their place in hip hop / Jessica N. Pabón-Colón -- Graffiti crash course / Martha Cooper -- I write, therefore I am / Skeme -- Straight outta Ulaanbaatar / Alex de Mora -- Works of art -- Cypher -- Miss Tony: Locally adored, internationally relevant / Lawrence Burney -- Conflicts of interest / Hardeep Pandhal -- Let the music play: The African diaspora, popular culture, and national identity in contemporary France / Charles Tshimanga -- Planting good words + hijabi (wrap my hijab) / Mona Haydar -- Makings of a club queen / TT the artist -- French hip-hop culture of the 2000s / Maï Lucas -- Damon Davis and DJ Charlie Chan -- Works of art -- Works in the exhibition -- Image and text credits.