The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century examines the resounding impact hip hop has had on contemporary art and culture across the past 20-plus years. This groundbreaking exhibition captures the extraordinary influence of the movement, 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. The exhibition features approximately 70 objects by both established and emerging artists, design houses, streetwear icons, and musicians working in a wide range of media 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.
The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century
Devin Allen. You Can’t Raid the Sun. 2020. Courtesy of the artist.
Hank Willis Thomas. Black Power. 2006. Barrett Barrera Projects
Jordan Casteel. Fendi. 2018. Private Collection, New York
Monica Ikegwu. Open/Closed. 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Myrtis.
Hassan Hajjaj. Cardi B Unity. 2017/1438. Courtesy the artist and Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.
Gajin Fujita. Ride or Die. 2005. Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection, Museum purchase, Enid and Crosby Kemper and William T. Kemper Acquisition Fund, 2005.39.01 © Gajin Fujita, courtesy of the artist and L.A. Louver Gallery. Photo: E. G. Schempf, 2021.
Caitlin Cherry. Bruja Cybernetica. 2022. Courtesy of the artist and The Hole (2022).
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