Posts Tagged ‘Elle Magazine’

Summer Session – The Artist Who Inspired Kanye West’s “Famous” Visuals Responds to the Video

Famous

This Summer Session we’re thinking about celebrity, and today we bring you an excerpt from an article by Erica Gonzales about Kanye West’s re-creation of artist Vincent Desiderio’s work for his music video “Famous.” Desiderio was neither consulted nor compensated before West made the video, yet he asserts that he was honored by West, exemplifying the social, economic, and artistic realities of what it means to have[…..]