Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak are enjoying the sun-dappled courtyard of a recording studio — lighting up American Spirits with a Gucci-monogrammed lighter, appreciating the gentle birdsong wafting down from the trees overhead, admiring some orange hibiscus flowers growing up a nearby wall — when a studio assistant named Alex […]
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VMFA’s ‘The Filthy South’ exhibit interweaves visible art and sonic expression | Arts & Theatre
“The Dirty South” usually takes its cues from the influential hip-hop genre of the same identify that emerged from the area in the mid-1990s. Its musical constellation consists of the distinct sounds of Virginia’s Hampton Roads (Pharrell Williams, Missy Elliott, Timbaland), Atlanta (OutKast, Ludacris, Usher, TLC) and New Orleans (Lil […]
VMFA presents The Dirty South: Contemporary Artwork, Substance Society, and the Sonic Impulse
The Virginia Museum of High-quality Arts (VMFA) will existing the groundbreaking exhibition The Soiled South: Contemporary Artwork, Substance Culture, and the Sonic Impulse. On check out from May 22 to September 6, 2021, the exhibition explores the aesthetic legacies and traditions of Black society in the African American South as […]