Musicians are always tapping visual artists to provide work for their album covers. Andy Warhol's Velvet Underground Cover or Takashi Murakami's work on Kanye West's Graduation. come to mind.
But Hip hop stars moving into the realm of contemporary visual art is far less common. This week however, there were two interesting stories:
Pharrel Williams on the cover of this month's Modern Painters
The RZA from the Wu-Tang clan has his recreated a painting
of George Washintgton crossing the Potomac.
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In other news, the new director of the LA Museum of Contemporary Art has been chosen. He is Jeffrey Deitch, founder of Deitch projects. Love the site, Check it out.
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