Art and the banks; hip hop in Baltimore; Juan de Pareja, the artist enslaved by Velázquez
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The Importance of Queerness in Hip Hop
I noticed that in the kind of artists that you're showing and in the catalogue, you're very keen to emphasize how actually those perceptions that some may have of hip hop, a really an extreme end. And it's actually a very inclusive form in many ways. What Greg Tate did for this exhibition was give us that eyewitness account of how hip hop from the very beginning did both. It both excluded women. But at the same time, there were in those incredibly smoky dark rooms at the beginning people who were from the queer community, women.
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