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.
Summary:
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.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.