The Department of History of Art and Architecture is delighted to announce the appointment of Cécile Fromont as a professor in our department. Born in Martinique, and with degrees from Science-Po and Harvard, Fromont has published field-changing books on the Christian visual culture of early modern Kongo and Angola and on Afro-Catholic festivals in the Americas.
Concerts throughout the city have been honoring the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, a genre born, according to the prevailing narrative, at a Bronx house party in 1973. Harvard University’s Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art marks this milestone with an exhibition of hip-hop ephemera and artifacts from the private archives of hip-hop pioneers Ice T & DJ Afrika Islam, longtime friends and collaborators.
“Day One DNA: 50 Years in Hiphop Culture,” a new exhibition at Harvard’s Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, charts the formative phases of hip-hop through the experience of two of its early practitioners: the rapper Ice-T and his friend and frequent collaborator, the producer DJ Afrika Islam. Working with the archive the pair amassed over the years, curator Laylah Amatullah Barrayn crafted a more expansive frame to mark not just their career trajectories but a more holistic view of the culture as it marks its 50th anniversary this year. (November is also National... Read more about Boston Globe, ''80s hip-hop culture, courtesy of Ice-T and DJ Afrika Islam, is on vivid display at Harvard'
Running through May, this multimedia exhibition curated by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn celebrates 50 years of hip-hop culture with more than 200 objects from the archives of icons and longtime collaborators Ice T and DJ Afrika Islam.
This immersive multimedia exhibition celebrates 50 years of hip-hop culture through the archives of hip-hop icons and long-time collaborators Ice T and Afrika Islam – together owners of one of the world’s largest private repositories of hip-hop ephemera and artefacts. Presenting over 200 objects from their holdings, the exhibition is divided into thematic...
The Cooper Gallery is set to mark this cultural milestone with a trove lent by one of the form’s early superstars, the rapper Ice T, and producer Afrika Islam. Comprising music, dance, and visual art, hip-hop might be the most penetrating, popular, and market-dominating cultural force in the world today — or hadn’t you heard breakdancing is now an Olympic sport? A look at its roots and indomitable spirit of defiance is an essential element of any examination of American culture.
