30 Years Of Video Music Box.

30 Years of Video Music Box and the Rise of Hip Hop Music & Culture
Guest Curated by Dexter Wimberly
March 10 – May 28, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 10 | 6pm – 9pm

Amy Andrieux * Malik Y. Cumbo * LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs * Delphine Fawundu * Bobbito Garcia * Tahir Hemphill * Jonathan Mannion * Tim Okamura * M. Tony Peralta * Fab 5 Freddy * Ali Santana * Jamel Shabazz * Daniel Amazu Wasser

THE BOX THAT ROCKS: 30 Years of Video Music Box and the Rise of Hip Hop Music & Culture is an exhibition of contemporary art that celebrates the global influence of Video Music Box, and the show’s historic contribution to urban music and culture. In 1983, Ralph McDaniels launched Video Music Box, a groundbreaking television program that ushered in the popularity and innovation of music videos. As the show’s creator and host, and the producer and/or director of over 400 music videos, Ralph McDaniels is a pioneer whose influence is still felt throughout the music industry. It is safe to say that hundreds of Hip Hop, R&B and Dancehall artists owe their street credibility, record sales, and a great deal of their commercial success to Video Music Box.

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Theophilus London collabs with Cole Hann, Covers Wax Poetics.

It’s safe to say that Mr. London has been a very busy man lately. Aside from his music and his new album, he’s set to drop a collaboration with fashion brand Cole Hann, The ‘Cole Haan…

Jamel Shabazz, Street Photographer.

Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer

Part of BAMcinemaFest

Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 3:30pm
Q&A with director Charlie Ahearn and film subject Jamel Shabazz followed by a booksigning with Shabazz.

World Premiere

Directed by Charlie Ahearn

(2011) 74min

In the infancy of hip-hop, Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz documented the pioneers of music and style that would launch an enduring worldwide phenomenon. Ahearn, director of the seminal Wild Style, pays tribute to both Shabazz and those who defined hip-hop before it had a definition. More than just vintage shots of kids rocking Puma Suedes, Kangols, and pin-striped Jordaches in Times Square and Fort Greene Park, Shabazz’s photographs have hundreds of (often times tragic) stories behind them, and Ahearn gives voice to these images with dozens of interviews with Shabazz himself, graffiti pioneer and hip-hop historian Fred “Fab 5 Freddy” Brathwaite, legendary rapper KRS-One (both Brooklynites), and more.

Trailer below…

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Hey You! Haiti: An Art & Film Exhibtion for Haiti.

About a year back, we brought you a few images from photographer Kareem Black’s visit to Haiti as part of a group of creative folks from several agencies around New York City who spent…

New works by COPE2 “Transition”
Opening Reception Thursday April 7, 2011
Through April 18, 2011
TT Gallery
91 Second Avenue, Lower level
New York, NY 10003
tt-underground.com
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