Last chance to catch two expansive shows on hip hop at MSVU Art Gallery

Two levels; two deep-dive exhibitions; one price: free. Since Sep 21, the Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery has brought together two shows to explore the art of hip hop—the graffiti, the music, the people, the movement—and how it lends itself to groundbreaking forms of archival work and scholarship that honours hip hop’s ongoing 51-plus-year music, aesthetic and cultural legacy. Still Tho: Aesthetic Survival in Hip Hop’s Visual Art, curated by Mark V. Campbell, and East of East Atlantic Hip Hop Archive, curated by Michael McGuire, are at the tail end of their final week, both coming down after 5pm this Sunday, Nov 23. Still Tho has also expanded outside the gallery with the “Respect the Architects Mural,” created by exhibiting artists Kalkidan Assefa AKA Drippin Soul, and Mique Michelle alongside local artist Darren Pyper AKA Ghettosocks. Learn more about the artists’ inspirations here. The mural was co-organized by the MSVU gallery and North Side Hop Hop Archive, founded by Campbell in Toronto in 2009, to open in conjunction with Still Tho and remain indefinitely along the Bedford Highway. Section of “Respect the Architects” mural on the Bedford Highway and Melody Drive. Artists: Mique Michelle, Kalkidan Assefa (Dripping Soul) and...