Crazy in Louvre: How Beyoncé and Jay-Z Exploit Western Art History to Ask Who Controls Black Bodies

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2018-06-29

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James Smalls. “Crazy in the Louvre: How Beyoncé and Jay-Z Exploit Western Art History to Ask Who Controls Black Bodies,” Frieze Magazine, June 29, 2018. https://frieze.com/article/crazy-louvre-how-beyonce-and-jay-z-exploit-western-art-history-ask-who-controls-black-bodies.

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An art historian explains what the Carters’s takeover of the Paris museum says about art, race and power