...Derek Murray Copyright © 2002 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2002 ONE PLANET 11J } \ |1 J jJMi V H ji | hip hop' AND CONTEMPORARY Journal of Contemporary African Art Nikki S. Lee, The Hip Hop...

...Kris Juncker Inadvertently, Tate Britain may be forecasting the fate of hip-hop and its artistic expression through a midcareer retrospective of Chris Ofili’s work. The exhibition presents a number of stages of his development, with an emphasis on the breakout, commercially successful work...

.... French hip-hop is the second-largest-selling in its genre in the world, and it is not surprising that it has resonated with young immigrant populations. There is a vital jazz scene in France but also a growing specter of racism. I am interested in recording the ways in which black bodies exist...

...-written assertion that Basquiat’s work owes a debt to hip-hop. Instead, Saggese considers the artist’s attention to and affection for improvisational jazz and the ways it impacted his practice. In the final chapter, the author takes up Basquiat’s engagement with Beat poets and the cultures they created...

... Kehinde Wiley, Portrait 90- Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art carded as the detritus of academic stoicism, humorlessness, and essentialism. Just as hip-hop...

...- _The whole family on the motor- hop reinvented the way that cool bike_ (1962), from a decade earli• urban youth, both black and white...

... of hip-hop. These shows occupy the contradictory cerns are universally applicable, the link between spectacle and position of complicating "rooted" notions of racial particularity, Otherness was strikingly articulated by "Black Belt's" fetishistic "realness," and authenticity...

... near exclusive turn to hip- continuing widespread commentary Louis David’s propagandistic portrait hop subjects, facilitated by the sartorial visvis the Brooklyn Museum’s recent retrospective covering roughly the past fourteen years, Roberta Smith hit on something when she ventured...

... disintegrating hip- Black Photography impressive trio of participating Woods and Keisha Scarville, both hop posters. The work of both artists (Anthony Barboza...

... a Gentleman, in reference to “Behold a Lady,” by Andre 3000, one of hip-hop’s most notable dandies, the initial exhibition featured the work of ten pho- Allison Janae Hamilton in collaboration with André tographers.1 All...

... of the Monument to the Third International, 1919 20. Photo: bpk Bildagentur/Art Resource, New York Journal of Contemporary African Art 47 November 202064 Nka in which the artist performs his version of voguing, this time in front of a live audience. In 2013, hip-hop artist Jay-Z released an album titled...

...- mysterious richness of Basquiat's is often undervalued as an ahistorical hop. In the company of Basquiat's images. Some of the most captivating expression of black male trauma, rather...

... of Manning Marable’s biography of Malcolm X, A Life of Reinvention (2011). Copyright © 2018 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2018 Malcolm X Islam youth hip hop extremism ...

... hop devotees, devotees, hop...

... of the world “interpretations of hip hop cannot be neatly cat- is not.16 The block is literally and figuratively an egorized as ‘resistant’ or ‘compliant.’ ”13 It seems extension of the corner. Literally, it is the “expanded obvious that the motif of the corner complies with field”—to borrow a term from...

..., all-to-frequent by-product of a country without the veil of nostalgia or post• it read at times like a gay-bashing, the hopped up on its own bullying brava• mortem perfection so often linked to easy male camaraderie and affection do, blind...

... Biennial and being seen referencing the hip hop group on the cover...

... of anatomical drawings and medical terminol- readings that rely on the artist’s relationship to hip- ogy. Other particularly rich sources for the artist ­hop culture.12 Yet Basquiat is not only cutting and were a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks and mixing the work of other authors, artists...

... to the things of nine prints that signify the characteristics of the and people around the subjects and their relation- hip-­hop remix that depended on purposeful repeti- ships to them. Who matters? What matters? Who tions, riffs, splices, and interjections from various decides? In a larger context...

... to African sources, appropriat- ies, and athletic shoes representative of hip-hop ing poses from pre- and postcolonial sculpture. For culture, yet the portraits were modeled after art example, his painting Dogon Couple (2008) mimics...