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‘Hip-Hop Is About People’: Tracing Rap’s Rise Through Photography | News
“Hip-hop is about people,” says the journalist and director Sacha Jenkins, who has dedicated much of his life to documenting the art form. Jenkins, along with co-curator Sally Berman, last week opened the landmark show “Hip-Hop: Conscious, Unconscious” at the Swedish photography museum Fotografiska’s Park Avenue outpost. As you first step into the exhibition, which runs in New York through May 21 before traveling to Stockholm and Berlin, you enter two rooms that feature striking photographs of people who saw hip-hop’s birth. Only a few of them have any significant name recognition, representative of a time when “hip-hop wasn’t conscious of itself,” Jenkins says. These images solidify that hip-hop was…
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Star Wars news reveals the next movie will avoid ‘Rise of Skywalker’s biggest mistake
The Star Wars sequel trilogy is divisive, to say the the very least, but most lovers agree it wasn’t the franchise’s best energy. Concerning powering-the-scenes politics, reshuffled inventive groups, and rushed productions, the effects (specifically The Rise of Skywalker) garnered a whole lot of criticism that appeared to set the overall future of Star Wars films in limbo. On the other hand, a leak surrounding the next Star Wars movie may possibly confirm that Lucasfilm has acquired from the classes of the sequels. According to Star Wars leaker MakingStarWars, who has a monitor record of revealing big tricks like Princess Leia’s physical appearance in Obi-Wan Kenobi, Pinewood Studios in London…