Spotify’s ‘The Gold Standard’ Art Exhibition Honored

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @spotify / Spotify A new art exhibition in collaboration with Spotify highlighted women in Hip-Hop including Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, and GloRilla. The enormous contribution of women to Hip-Hop culture is undeniable, and a new art exhibition in New York City put that on display. The Gold Standard is an exhibition of artwork by Manon Biernacki paying homage to the prominent women rappers of the day. The rappers featured are Megan Thee Stallion, Cardi B, GloRilla, Ice Spice, Latto, Doja Cat, the City Girls, Saweetie, Sexyy Red, and Flo Milli. Their countenances are portrayed in larger-than-life fashion in paintings imbued with Biernacki’s Renaissance-inspired vision. An Instagram post by the streaming platform’s Hip-Hop entity RapCaviar announced the exhibition earlier in July, proclaiming it was highlighting “the Golden Era of women in Hip-Hop.” The Gold Standard was hosted in a one-day-only exhibition on Wednesday (July 31) at The Hole gallery space in the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City. Visitors to the free exhibit were greeted with a lavish table set up for a feast as they walked in, with mirrors hanging on the wall to their right adorned with the words “Feelin’ Myself” where...