Art Gallery of Ontario hosts contemporary hip-hop art exhibition

Co-curator Andrea Purnell said the four-member team engaged in extensive outreach and collaboration. “It was important for us to be as genuine as possible, thinking about the grassroots of hip-hop,” said the St. Louis Art Museum Audience Development Manager. “Because of that, we talked to as many people as we could. We formed a global advisory group that comprised fashion designers, people in hip-hop and other curators. We are building off their story of hip-hop. This is not the first hip-hop exhibition. We talked to the others to tell us how it happened, what went well and what didn’t. “Once we got in a room and said this is our idea, then we decided – even with the checklist – to make sure we spoke to as many of the artists as we could to tell us how this work is hip-hop what hip-hop means to them. Some of the artists said ‘I know you are looking at this work and I know you are interested in the show, but actually I have grown up a bit and hip-hop has influenced my practice in this way and I want to make something new for you’. They got so excited. We...