Kanye’s Collaborator Said Some Truly Absurd S**t About Black Identity

Vanessa Beecroft is an artist. Vanessa Beecroft is a well-known Kanye West collaborator. Vanessa Beecroft is also an incredibly privileged Italian woman who unleashed a dumpster fire of ignorant commentary in a recent interview with New York Magazine.

Let’s back up, though: Some of us know Beecroft as the woman who helped design the set of Yeezy Season 3 and other Kanye projects. Others might know her as the progenitor of controversial artworks like “White Madonna with Twins” or the delightfully unhinged presence in “The Art Star and the Sudanese Children.”