The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century
Foreword and introduction by Asma Naeem. Introduction by Gamynne Guillotte, Hannah Klemm, Andréa Purnell.
A sweeping survey of hip hop’s resounding impact on contemporary art and culture across the past 20-plus years
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 fully illustrated monograph documents the exhibition and contains texts and interviews from more than 30 artists and scholars. Artists include: Nina Chanel Abney, Dionne Alexander, Maxwell Alexandre, Devin Allen, Alvaro Barrington, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Grace Wales Bonner, Mark Bradford, Jordan Casteel, Willy Chavarria, Caitlin Cherry, Troy Chew II, William Cordova, Carl Jones, Stan Douglas, John Edmonds, Gajin Fujita, Monica Ikegwu, Shabez Jamal, Kahlil Joseph, Nia June, LA II, Deana Lawson, Eric N. Mack, Emmanuel Massillon, Julie Mehretu, Murjoni Merriweather, Jayson Musson, Rashaad Newsome, Yvonne Osei, Zéh Palito, Gordon Parks, Adam Pendleton, Robert Pruitt, Rammellzee, Sheila Rashid, Rozeal, Joyce J. Scott, Tschabalala Self, Tariku Shiferaw, Devan Shimoyama, Hank Willis Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, Abbey Williams, Pharrell Williams and Wilmer Wilson IV. Authors include: Ebony Haynes, Todd Boyd, Lester Spence, Jordana Moore Saggese, Greg Tate, Misa Hylton, Elena Romero, Ekow Eshun, Devin Allen, Michael Holman, Simone White, Salome Asega, Alphonse Pierre, David A.M. Goldberg and Tahir Hemphill, Jacolby Satterwhite, Wendel Patrick, Simon Reynolds, Seph Rodney, Jesse McCarthy, Danez Smith, Noriko Manabe, Lindsay Knight and Charity Marsh, Shaheem Sanchez, Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr., Sekou Cooke, Jessica N. Pabón-Colón, Martha Cooper, Skeme, Alex de Mora and Lawrence Burney.
Hank Willis Thomas, “Black Power” (2006), is from 'The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century.'
PRAISE AND REVIEWS
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Harriet Lloyd-Smith
The show captures the pan-disciplinary phenomenon of hip hop; its ability to traverse high and low culture, and how it preempted a contemporary landscape in which creative fields continue to blur and overlap.
Surface
Jenna Adrian-Diaz
One of the show’s biggest strengths lies in its easy-to-follow examples of the genre’s seismic impact.
Essence
Okla Jones
Contains significant personal and communal resonance for those steeped in hip-hop culture, while providing a crash course into the explosive impact of the genre over the past two decades for those less versed.
Rolling Stone
Sacha Lecca
Hip-hop is finally getting the high-art recognition it deserves, thanks to “The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century.”
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Featured spreads—featuring work by Virgil Abloh for Louis Vuitton, Nina Chanel Abney, Devin Allen, Joyce J. Scott and Tschabalala Self—are reproduced from The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century. Published for the fiftieth anniversary of hip hop to accompany the critically acclaimed exhibition touring from the Baltimore Museum of Art to the Saint Louis Art Museum, Cincinnati Art Museum and Art Gallery of Ontario through 2025, this volume contains work by more than thirty of the last five decades’ most daring, influential and multifaceted artists and scholars. Curator Asma Naeem writes, “The 21st century has seen the term ‘culture’ contested, protested and dismantled from European high culture to American dominance, and the continued reverberations of imperialism, tyranny and the decolonization of the ‘Third World.’ Museums seem to be a vital frontier in this sense. Hip hop in the 21st century flows with multiculturalism and collaboration, a porousness and fluidity among disciplines, pioneering technology and collectivity. Cultural theorist Stuart Hall acknowledged that Black culture can be defined in response to other cultures, such as white hegemony, and argued that Black popular culture is a complex site where politics and performance are negotiated through a dialogic intertwining of a number of simultaneous identities, being Black and British, for example. As this exhibition attests, the future of the museum lies in an embrace of this site, of the culture, where material culture and entangled social histories—where Sylvia Wynter’s humanness and new systems of knowledge, ones that lie outside of Western precepts, exist—are the future.” continue to blog
Featured spreads—featuring work by Virgil Abloh for Louis Vuitton, Nina Chanel Abney, Devin Allen, Joyce J. Scott and Tschabalala Self—are reproduced from The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century. Published for the fiftieth anniversary of hip hop to accompany the critically acclaimed exhibition touring from the Baltimore Museum of Art to the Saint Louis Art Museum, Cincinnati Art Museum and Art Gallery of Ontario through 2025, this volume contains work by more than thirty of the last five decades’ most daring, influential and multifaceted artists and scholars. Curator Asma Naeem writes, “The 21st century has seen the term ‘culture’ contested, protested and dismantled from European high culture to American dominance, and the continued reverberations of imperialism, tyranny and the decolonization of the ‘Third World.’ Museums seem to be a vital frontier in this sense. Hip hop in the 21st century flows with multiculturalism and collaboration, a porousness and fluidity among disciplines, pioneering technology and collectivity. Cultural theorist Stuart Hall acknowledged that Black culture can be defined in response to other cultures, such as white hegemony, and argued that Black popular culture is a complex site where politics and performance are negotiated through a dialogic intertwining of a number of simultaneous identities, being Black and British, for example. As this exhibition attests, the future of the museum lies in an embrace of this site, of the culture, where material culture and entangled social histories—where Sylvia Wynter’s humanness and new systems of knowledge, ones that lie outside of Western precepts, exist—are the future.” continue to blog
Featured spreads—featuring work by Virgil Abloh for Louis Vuitton, Nina Chanel Abney, Devin Allen, Joyce J. Scott and Tschabalala Self—are reproduced from The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century. Published for the fiftieth anniversary of hip hop to accompany the critically acclaimed exhibition touring from the Baltimore Museum of Art to the Saint Louis Art Museum, Cincinnati Art Museum and Art Gallery of Ontario through 2025, this volume contains work by more than thirty of the last five decades’ most daring, influential and multifaceted artists and scholars. Curator Asma Naeem writes, “The 21st century has seen the term ‘culture’ contested, protested and dismantled from European high culture to American dominance, and the continued reverberations of imperialism, tyranny and the decolonization of the ‘Third World.’ Museums seem to be a vital frontier in this sense. Hip hop in the 21st century flows with multiculturalism and collaboration, a porousness and fluidity among disciplines, pioneering technology and collectivity. Cultural theorist Stuart Hall acknowledged that Black culture can be defined in response to other cultures, such as white hegemony, and argued that Black popular culture is a complex site where politics and performance are negotiated through a dialogic intertwining of a number of simultaneous identities, being Black and British, for example. As this exhibition attests, the future of the museum lies in an embrace of this site, of the culture, where material culture and entangled social histories—where Sylvia Wynter’s humanness and new systems of knowledge, ones that lie outside of Western precepts, exist—are the future.” continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 9.25 x 11.75 in. / 308 pgs / 244 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $55.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $79 GBP £49.00 ISBN: 9781941366547 PUBLISHER: Gregory R. Miller & Co./Baltimore Museum of Art/Saint Louis Art Museum AVAILABLE: 6/27/2023 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: WORLD
The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century
Published by Gregory R. Miller & Co./Baltimore Museum of Art/Saint Louis Art Museum. Foreword and introduction by Asma Naeem. Introduction by Gamynne Guillotte, Hannah Klemm, Andréa Purnell.
A sweeping survey of hip hop’s resounding impact on contemporary art and culture across the past 20-plus years
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 fully illustrated monograph documents the exhibition and contains texts and interviews from more than 30 artists and scholars.
Artists include: Nina Chanel Abney, Dionne Alexander, Maxwell Alexandre, Devin Allen, Alvaro Barrington, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Grace Wales Bonner, Mark Bradford, Jordan Casteel, Willy Chavarria, Caitlin Cherry, Troy Chew II, William Cordova, Carl Jones, Stan Douglas, John Edmonds, Gajin Fujita, Monica Ikegwu, Shabez Jamal, Kahlil Joseph, Nia June, LA II, Deana Lawson, Eric N. Mack, Emmanuel Massillon, Julie Mehretu, Murjoni Merriweather, Jayson Musson, Rashaad Newsome, Yvonne Osei, Zéh Palito, Gordon Parks, Adam Pendleton, Robert Pruitt, Rammellzee, Sheila Rashid, Rozeal, Joyce J. Scott, Tschabalala Self, Tariku Shiferaw, Devan Shimoyama, Hank Willis Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, Abbey Williams, Pharrell Williams and Wilmer Wilson IV.
Authors include: Ebony Haynes, Todd Boyd, Lester Spence, Jordana Moore Saggese, Greg Tate, Misa Hylton, Elena Romero, Ekow Eshun, Devin Allen, Michael Holman, Simone White, Salome Asega, Alphonse Pierre, David A.M. Goldberg and Tahir Hemphill, Jacolby Satterwhite, Wendel Patrick, Simon Reynolds, Seph Rodney, Jesse McCarthy, Danez Smith, Noriko Manabe, Lindsay Knight and Charity Marsh, Shaheem Sanchez, Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr., Sekou Cooke, Jessica N. Pabón-Colón, Martha Cooper, Skeme, Alex de Mora and Lawrence Burney.