Kanye West’s <em>Ye</em> Sparks and Sputters

In a meadow set against literal purple-mountain majesty, as dusk started to fall in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the livestream of Kanye West’s album-launch party began. Speaker stacks stood, black and blocky, near a crackling bonfire and a pack of wandering horses. Shortly before midnight (for those tuning in from the East Coast), West’s guests milled into sight, looking diverse and cosmopolitan, with a few cowboy hats bobbing amid structural streetwear. Most noticeable were the pops of neon orange and yellow that affixed the event’s custom merchandise. They were the colors of traffic cones and hunting