Kevin Powell, interview by Tony Karon
Kevin Powell, a writer and former senior editor for VIBE magazine, curated the 1999 retrospective "Hip— Hop Nation," a traveling museum exhibition of the many artifacts that attest to the history and influence of rap and hip hop on American culture during the late twentieth century.
TIME: A MAJOR MUSEUM EXPLORATION OF HIP—HOP acknowledges its rightful place in the annals of American popular culture. But doesn't putting something in a museum also imply that it's dead"
KEVIN POWELL: No, putting something in a museum does not imply that it is dead. It implies that it is important, crucial, an important part of the human journey. The art of 1980s graffiti superstar Jean—Michel Basquiat is not dead, although he has been dead for 13 years. The art of African American painters Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence and others is full of life because art is about.....
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