New exhibition at Bronx Museum celebrates 50 years of hip-hop

“Two Turntables and a Microphone” is a new exhibition at the Bronx Museum that celebrates 50 years of hip-hop.

The exhibition features paintings, sculptures, videos, photos and more from artist and Bronx native Dianne Smith, who grew up in the Bronx in the 1970s as hip-hop was developing.

“It was about the block parties. It was about the jams in the park,” Smith said.

Smith went to high school with future hip-hop stars Slick Rick and Dana Dane at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts.

“This exhibition is sort of an homage to that time, an homage to what it meant to be a kid

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