The artwork features a minimalist yet impactful complementary color palette of black and white, green and red, blue and yellow ... figures in the art world and world of hip hop highlight the ...

Aficionados will spot the legendary yellow gold Jesus piece that the ... thinks “Ice Cold” makes a statement that hip-hop jewelry is “art at the highest level.” “It’s in the same ...

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip hop’s inception, the Baltimore Museum of Art opened a groundbreaking exhibition that explored the political, cultural, and aesthetic attributes that have ...

The drummer and co-frontman of the Roots makes a convincing case not only that hip-hop is a pivotal piece of cultural history, but also that to some extent it is history, as in an art form “that ...

Benjamin “Yellow Benjy” Melendez and the Ghetto Brothers brokered a truce among 50 gangs that led to safer streets, a flourishing of public art and, ultimately, the birth of hip-hop.

The Cincinnati Art Museum is hosting The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, an exhibition that explores the genre’s decades-long influence on society. On hip hop’s 50th ...

The Art Gallery of Ontario recently welcomed The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century. The exhibit explores the extraordinary impact of the genre through painting, photography ...

“The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century” is on view at the CAC (Cincinnati Art Museum) through Sept. 29. It’s fascinating, entertaining and lots of fun. The giant ...

In 2009, he wrote "Foundation: B-boys, B-girls, and Hip-Hop Culture in New York." And in 2014 he wrote "Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop." After pushback from readers online ...

This conversation is both needed and significant because it will challenge anti-intellectualist impulses to criticize Hip Hop as devoid of higher-order value (i.e., often, Hip Hop gets a “bad ...