The debt Beyoncé owes visual artists

The video for Run the World (Girls) recalls the work of South African photographer Pieter Hugo. But is it homage or appropriation?The music business may be shrinking, but there's still an elite group of artists who can afford mega-budget videos. One of them is Beyoncé, who on Wednesday night (18 May) debuted Run the World (Girls), prompting adjectives such as "post-apocalyptic", "futuristic" and "amazing". The Daily Mail compared the choreography to Riverdance; the words Mad Max were bandied ar...

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