by Jon Lackman | 11 January 2010 | Journals
In its December 2009 issue, The Art Bulletin uses the word “hip-hop” for the first time, in an article by Krista Thompson on “The Sound of Light: Reflections on Art History in the Visual Culture of Hip-Hop,” which centers on two contemporary artists, Kehinde Wiley and Luis Gispert. Elsewhere in the issue, Guy Delmarcel reviews Henry VIII and the Art of Majesty: Tapestries at the Tudor Court by the new Metropolitan Museum director Thomas P. Campbell (“numerous detailed analyses,” “a lively dialogue,” “sometimes strays too far”). And Michelle Kuo reviews Branden Joseph’s Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage (“magisterial,” “a tour de force of both interpretive and historiographic acuity,” “Joseph’s scintillating and landmark study holds profound relevance for all the arts and beyond”).
