Fab 5 Freddy Is Our December 2021/January 2022 Music Director

IDRIS TALIB SOLOMON The hip-hop and street-art pioneer was an integral figure in New York’s downtown creative scene in the ’70s and ’80s, performing alongside Afrika Bambaataa and Rock Steady Crew and counting Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring among his closest contemporaries and collaborators. Inspired by Andy Warhol, Brathwaite and his friends began organizing more inclusive art shows that functioned like parties, with live bands and DJ sets. “We wanted to have fun, have music, and not have our art be seen in a corny ‘art world’ way,” he says. “We wanted to shake up all of that.” Five decades… Read Full Article