Hip Hop Circuit-Popular Culture

THE HIP HOP CIRCUIT

POPULAR CULTURE

POETRY

http://www.nuyorican.org
The Nuyorican Poets Café was founded in 1973. It began as a living room salon in the East village apartment of writer and poet, Miguel Algarin.

http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/LAST-POETS/last_poets0.html
Biography and poetry about the Last Poets. Last Poets were rappers of the civil rights era. Museums

MUSEUMS

http://www.imow.org/exhibitions_wow/html
International Museum of Women is a world-class cultural and educational institution proposed for San Francisco. The groundbreaking is scheduled for 2006 and the opening in 2008.

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/1997/sherman/untitled06.html
The official website of the Museum of Modern Arts in New York. There is a picture on exhibition/on website of Cindy Sherman (1977).

http://www.sfmoma.org/
The official website of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is one of the world’s most innovative museums of modern and contemporary art.

PHOTOGRAPHY

www.artcyclopedia.com
Artcyclopedia is a definitive and effective guide to museum quality fine art on the

http://www.naturephoto.com/html/misc/sf.htm
Habitat Nature Photography was created to express the beauty of nature on film. On the website you can order photographs, photo greeting cards, and photo magnets.

www.talamasca.com/~cuccia/photo’s/coit
There is photography taken by Nick Cuccia featured on this site. There are some of his personal favorites from over the last seven years. There are also some pictures of the Coit Tower in San Francisco.

www.artchives.com
There is photography by Henry Diltz featured on this site. There is also an online store to order the photographs.Film

FILM

http://www.naatanet.org/community/filmmaker/meidafund/project.html
NAATA’s mission is to present stories that convey the richness and diversity of the Asian Pacific American experience to the broadest audience possible.

http://www.cetel.org/
The center for Educational Telecommunications is a nonprofit organization devoted to producing, publishing, and consulting in the multiculturalism, with a special interest in Asian and Asian Americans.Arts

ARTS

www.liladowns.com
A website that is dedicated to performer Lila who was recently invited to perform at a concert for the United Nations. The concert was in honor of World AIDS Day on Monday, December 1, 2003.

http://www.pvmirror.com/artculture/frida-kahlo.html
Puerto Vallarta’s newspaper website with an article about Salema Hayek’s portrayal of Frida Kahlo.

www.claystation.com
Website on different types of art including pottery. There is also an online pottery shop at this site.

www.diegorivera.com
Website about Diego Rivera with a small biography included. Also there is an online store with his murals featured.

www.kinetspace.com
Kinte’s space wants to extend and develop some of the ideas and very few images introduced to American popular culture by the electronic version of Alex Haley’s literary classic, Roots.

www.cultureclash.com
Culture clash is a theatrical group that was founded May 5, 1984 in San Francisco’s Mission district. The group includes Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Siguenza.