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Grammy winner Kanye West is outfitted in some of the trappings of his times in a portrait by Alexander Melamid. It's part of the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-hiphop31-2008aug31,0,1248759.story">"Holy Hip-Hop!"</a> exhibition of Melamid works that is scheduled from Sept. 12 to Nov. 1 at the Forum Gallery in Los Angeles. Melamid formerly was renowned as a conceptual art rebel in Soviet Russia.

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Grammy winner Kanye West is outfitted in some of the trappings of his times in a portrait by Alexander Melamid. It's part of the "Holy Hip-Hop!" exhibition of Melamid works that is scheduled from Sept. 12 to Nov. 1 at the Forum Gallery in Los Angeles. Melamid formerly was renowned as a conceptual art rebel in Soviet Russia.

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