Art
Crowning the Queens of Hip-Hop Culture
Women artists’ contributions shine in The Culture, an exhibition about hip hop at the Saint Louis Art Museum.
Hip Hop
Guide
A Sneak Peek Into New York’s New Hip Hop Museum
In advance of the museum’s opening, a series of rotating exhibitions in the Bronx Terminal Market offers a preview of what’s to come.
News
Museum in the Birthplace of Hip-Hop Gets $5.5M From NYC
A new Bronx location for the Universal Hip Hop Museum is set to open its doors in 2024.
Art
A Brief (and Very Commercial) History of Hip-Hop
Hip-hop once offered more than stereotypes of masculinity and femininity, but Contact High feels focused on valorizing commercial might above all else.
Art
Hip-Hop’s Love of Remix Is Influencing Architecture
The upside of an exhibition about hip-hop architecture, a movement in its infancy, is that it’s hard to pigeonhole. But it’s also hard to determine what visually brings all the works together.
Art
Discover Over 1,700 Photos and Ephemera from the Early Years of Hip-Hop Online
The Sugar Hill Gang, Public Enemy, Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, and other hip-hop pioneers feature in the newly digitized material from Cornell University.
Art
Miley Cyrus and Her Minstrel Show
Miley Cyrus does not lend credibility to hip-hop, nor can she take it away.
Art
An Old Master Spin on Hip-Hop Video Bacchanals
With their paintings of bacchanalian revelry and swaggery Dionysus, Old Masters like Caravaggio, Poussin, and Rubens were a bit like the hip-hop videographers of their day.
Art
The East Village Eye: Where Art, Hip Hop, and Punk Collided
Between May 1979 and January 1987, the East Village Eye breathlessly covered the East Village art scene. Indiscriminate in its interests, the magazine charted the rise of hip hop, graffiti, and punk, and is widely credited with contributing to the intermingling of several New York scenes.
Opinion
Hip-Hop Meets Art History
Cecilia Azcarate's art history tumblelog B4XVI pairs pictures of rappers with historical sculptures, paintings, and statues from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection.
Art
The Story of Hip-Hop's Film Birth
Charlie Ahearn is known as an independent filmmaker, but he’s much more than that. He’s perhaps better described as a community filmmaker. For his films The Deadly Art of Survival (1979) and Wild Style (1983), he connected with local communities of young New Yorkers (many of them teenagers) and work
Art
Reclaiming Tonto and Appropriating Jay-Z
TORONTO — Appropriation and amalgamation take center stage at "Beat Nation," organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery and currently on view at The Power Plant in Toronto, a show focusing on the influence of hip hop culture in Aboriginal contemporary art.