The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century

The Culture is accompanied by a comprehensive catalog organized into themes of self-presentation and adornment, representation, technology, and language. Contributors include author and scholar Todd Boyd (Notorious Ph.D.); multimedia producer and performer TT The Artist, poet Danez Smith, stylist Misa Hylton, choreographer Sean Bankhead, deaf hip hop dancer Shaheem Sanchez, Canadian rapper from the Muskoday First Nation Eekwol Lindsay Knight, Muslim poet/rap activist Mona Haydar, and visual artists Devin Allen, Jacolby Satterwhite, and Murjoni Merriweather. The catalog also includes a transcript of a roundtable of national and international curators who have mounted exhibitions about hip hop in the last two decades: Franklin Sirmans and Lydia Yee, Valerie Cassel Oliver, René De Guzman, Martha Diaz, Carol Tulloch, and Aurélie Clemente-Ruiz.

Available April 5, 2023