Hip-Hop Exhibition Comes To Chicago

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The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame's Black Creativity exhibition this year is
hip-hop. The traveling exhibit focuses on hip-hop's evolution from a street culture to a multi-billion dollar industry. The event, which kicked off January 17th in Chicago, features over 400 artifacts ranging from a notebook Tupac Shakur wrote in, one of the first editions of The Source (before it was a successful glossy magazine), a mixer Jazz legend Herbie Hancock used, to a directors chair Queen Latifah used. Photos, album covers and written documents also comprise the exhibit.

The exhibit also features interactivity, featuring two computer kiosks where visitors can learn to scratch, spin and sample from James Brown.

The exhibit was created at The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in Cleveland and has already been featured in Brooklyn and San Francisco. It will be at the Museum of Science and Industry through May 27. A series of performances and programs accompany it as part of Black Creativity 2002, through Feb. 28.

For more information on the exhibit, call (773) 684-1414 or go online to www.msichicago.org