Libraries & Museums: Windows to Culture

Overtime. libraries and museums have formed a unique relationship. Their collective missions are to serve the public through the sharing of materials and through the exhibition of art.

More recently these institutions have become more responsive to what has been overlooked or underrepresented in books and in art.

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has an exhibit entitled Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation. It is the first major showing of the art work of Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) along with his Black and Latinx friends associated with hip-hop culture.

Basquiat is credited with elevating graffiti from street art to include music, breakdancing, poetry, and fashion - a mixture of creativty and energy that together is called Hip-Hop.

A connection to a library book...