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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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DC Artist Accused of Tracing Marvel X-Men Art For New Wonder Woman Book
An artist on DC’s approaching Demo of the Amazons function, Joëlle Jones, is currently being accused of plagiarizing the artwork of legendary X-Men artist Pepe Larraz. Joëlle Jones, at present an artist at DC Comics, has been accused by a person on Twitter (@samuli47) of allegedly instantly tracing the art of Pepe Larraz, the artist who partnered with Jonathan Hickman to build the X-Men’s latest era over at Marvel Comics. The allegation spins out of the marketing art established for the upcoming Speculate Lady event, Demo of the Amazons. Plagiarism in the comics community is under no circumstances a thing to be taken evenly, which is what helps make the the latest accusation in opposition to the…