This 2019 work of art by Roberto Lugo, titled “Street Shrine 1: A Notorious Story (Biggie),” shows how hip-hop has influenced all forms of visual expression, to include ceramic works of art.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s “The Shape of Power ... two pieces — Hiram Powers’s “The Greek Slave” and Roberto Lugo’s “DNA Study Revisited” — that were created ...