Kanye West Mural

KANYE'S BACK

Well, at least he’s back home in the form of a new mural, done earlier this week in the West Loop (basically, Fulton Market and Racine Avenue) by Hyde Park artist Chris Devins. Devins says he decided on doing the mural, which is 14 feet tall, after having dinner in the Fulton Market District with a friend where they talked about rapper Kanye West. Afterward, Devins walked by “this big blank wall” and thought it’d be a good spot to showcase West’s image.

Also motivating Devins was just thinking about West’s “impact on music, fashion and art, it’s undeniable.”

“His incredible influence on all three of those cultures … it just dawned on me that this might be one of the greatest artists.”

And Devins has a thing for Chicago-area rappers. We’ve written before about his homage to the late homegrown singer Juice WRLD, whose image Devins plastered on the side of a South Side building a couple of years back after his untimely death. - Robert Herguth Chicago Sun-Times