Famous

source: highsnobiety
Most of you should remember the incredible sculpture that Kanye West produced for the music video of his track “Famous.” Featuring everyone naked, including George W. Bush, Donald Trump, Anna Wintour, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Ray J, Amber Rose, Caitlyn Jenner, Bill Cosby, and of course Taylor Swift, the video created a lot of controversy when it released earlier this year. West replaced pop culture icons and controversial public figures with Vincent Desiderio’s anonymous people in his iconic work Sleep. The world certainly overreacted to the art piece. We analyzed possible inspiration behind the work and now it turns out that a sculpture has in fact been created for the video and that sculpture is on display at a Los Angeles gallery. The unveiling took place yesterday with Kim Kardashian and a robot Kanye West, who joined the unveiling live through a robot screen.

Los Angeles gallery Blum & Poe hosted the unveiling of the sculpture last night. Find some impressions from the exhibition and private viewing here above, as well as here below.
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source: artsandecon
Art historians and aesthetic philosophers have long debated how one can distinguish the fine arts from common visual culture. Across different eras, they have tried to draw lines around what is Art with a capital “A” and what is simply visual culture.

One quick way to draw borders around these different categories of cultural production is to look at prices. Peter Paul Rubens’ massive and expensive paintings produced for European royals—like those for Marie de Medici—are Art, while the crude uncompensated doodles in a seventeenth-century book are popular visual culture. This economic distinction, both explicitly and implicitly, continues to categorize images. Consider the relative value of a Roy Lichtenstein painting and the comic book that inspired it.

However, an effort to generate criteria dividing fine art from other visual culture has also produced a more philosophically rigorous distinction than simply monetary value. Inspired by viewing Andy Warhol’s Brillo Boxes, Arthur Danto wrote “The Artworld” (1964), one of the most important works of aesthetic philosophy. Concluding his discussion of how the designation of otherwise ordinary visual culture as Art depends on contemporary artistic theories, Danto writes:

“Brillo boxes enter the artworld with the same tonic incongruity the commedia dell’arte characters bring into Ariadne auf Naxos. Whatever is the artistically relevant predicate in virtue of which they gain their entry, the rest of the Artworld becomes that much the richer in having the opposite predicate available and applicable to the members. And, to return to the views of Hamlet with which we began this discussion, Brillo boxes may reveal us to ourselves as well as anything might: as a mirror held up to nature, they might serve to catch the conscience of our kings.”

Into this economic and philosophical minefield, enter Kanye West. The “recording artist, songwriter, record producer, fashion designer and entrepreneur” provoked strong reactions when he debuted the “visual” for his song “Famous.” The video centers on shots of a hyper-realistic sculpture of West and his wife Kim Kardashian West in a giant bed with ten other celebrities. Stylistically reminiscent of work by Ron Mueck and Charles Ray, the sculpture displays nude images of people ranging from Taylor Swift and Amber Rose, to Donald Trump and George W. Bush. The central image of the video has been condemned by Lena Dunham, praised by the artist whose painting inspired the work and subject to dozens of journalistic thought pieces. But is it Art?

According to the initial media reaction, the answer to this question was “No.” A music video readily available on YouTube is not Art, no matter if it seems to “reveal us to ourselves as well as anything might: as a mirror held up to nature, they might serve to catch the conscience of our kings.” However, the sculpture central to the video was recently shown at Los Angeles’ Blum & Poe art gallery. This placement of the work in a gallery context has altered critiques of the sculpture and West’s video. Deliberately placed in the Artworld—to use Danto’s language—the sculpture and the film it stars in take on new and more profound meaning. Nonetheless, it is important to note that in all the coverage and conversation the most talked about issues were “Is it for sale?” and “For how much?”
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source: horapoptv
O clipe “Famous” do Kanye West foi indicado a Clipe do Ano ao VMA 2016 já que causou ao ser lançado e comentado por muitos, pois trás diversas celebridades “Nuas” que respiram. Ao ser lançado muitos achavam que ele receberia vários processos mas até o momento nada apareceu, dessa vez ele decidiu vendes as estátuas por US$ 4 milhões de dólares de acordo com o jornal “The New York Times”.

o longa trás personagens como por exemplo Bill Cosby, a modelo, socialite e ex-atleta transexual Caitlyn Jenner, o cantor acusado de agredir sua ex-namorada Rihanna, Chris Brown, Donald Trump, Anna Wintour, George Bush, Amber Rose, Ray J, e Taylor Swift — não só parecem reais como também se movem como se estivessem respirando.
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source: arabiccnn
أتلانتا، الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية (CNN)– أضاف مغني الراب الأمريكي ومصمم الأزياء المثير للجدل، كانيي ويست، لقبا جديدا لنفسه خلال نهاية هذا الأسبوع، إذ مارس دور الفنان التشكيلي في معرض بمدينة لوس أنجلوس في ولاية كاليفورنيا الأمريكية.

لمدة ليلتين فقط، استلقت المجسمات العارية لاثني عشر من المشاهير في معرض مهول ملأ مساحة المعرض بأكمله تقريبا، مثلما ظهر في فيديو كليب لأغنيته “Famous” العديد من الأشخاص الذين يشبهون المشاهير وهم عراة، ويستلقون مع ويست في السرير.

شاهد.. هذه أغرب لحظات كانييه ويست.. زوج كيم كارداشيان

وتتمدد المجسمات 12 في سرير وتتحرك بهدوء ما يجعلها تُبدو حية وكأنها تتنفس بسلام.

ومن ضمن الشخصيات المتنوعة التي تُعد من أكثر الشخصيات شهرة: الرئيس الأمريكي السابق، جورج دبليو بوش، والصحفية البريطانية-الأمريكية، آنا وينتور، والمرشح الرئاسي الجمهوري، دونالد ترامب، والمغنية ريانا، والمغني كريس براون، والمغنية تايلور سويفت، ويست نفسه، وزوجته كيم كارداشيان، وراي جاي حبيب كارداشيان السابق، والعارضة الأمريكية، أمبر روز، حبيبة ويست السابقة، ونجمة تلفزيون الواقع المتحولة جنسيا، كاتلين جينر، والنجم الكوميدي الأمريكي، بيل كوسبي.
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source: mthepinkcc
在 Kanye West 发布《Famous》 MV 时，就惹来了不小争议。针对 Taylor Swift 的歌词都引发不小争议，还有群星裸身画面。

Kanye West一向举动大胆，是事不惊人誓死不休的性格。在 Kanye West 发布《Famous》 MV 时其中的群星裸身画面惹来了一阵轰动，后来裸体虽被证实是人偶雕塑，但 Kanye 的大胆还是让人颇为意外。

近日，MV 中的人偶于洛杉矶的 Blum & Poe 画廊展出，Kim Kardashian 与小妹 Kendall Jenner 亲自到场助阵。

在展出现场的照片中，人们可以一览包括 Taylor Swift、Kanye West、Rihanna、Chris Brown 与 Kim Kardashian 等明星的的睡颜，机会着实难得。