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 ...

“Last time I checked, the First Amendment applies to hip-hop as well,” Parker wrote. “If anything, we should put more signs on more buildings to celebrate our art, our message and our creativit ...

Conor Harrington is an Irish street artist known for his expressionistic oil paintings and murals ... graffiti as a teenager after hanging out at hip-hop clubs. He went on to attend the Limerick ...

However, it was New York’s subway graffiti scene, particularly with artists like TAKI 183, that helped shape what we now recognize as contemporary graffiti art. 5. The influence of Hip Hop ...

When planning the exhibit—which features photography, paintings and videos influenced by hip-hop—curators saw a barren ... In fact, their street art has gone commercial, with companies such ...

Today, the influence of hip-hop seems intertwined with the fashion industry, to the point where we can barely imagine one without the other. But, in the early 1980s, fashion brands faced a dilemma ...

The store effortlessly reps every aspect of hip-hop culture — from MCing and DJing to graffiti art and breakdancing ... selection to its collection of paintings paying tribute to dearly ...

The emergence of a new music genre, hip hop, produced DJs who were significantly more skilled. These DJs – or turntablists, as they came to be known – were performers and musical artists in ...

He and The Birthplace of Hip Hop said that the banner is an extension of graffiti art that lines the community space where hip hop originated. The two sides are now set to meet in federal court on ...