Tag: Obama poster
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New Cambridge Playground Opens
At long last, the new Alexander Kemp Playground on the Cambridge Common is open! It’s the most unusual playground I’ve ever seen–with dragon boat, water games, a group swing, gardens, natural woods, covered areas, its own hill, and sand everywhere. ”
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Shepard Fairey Revisited Again
On closer inspection, it becomes clear that Fairey has greatly transformed the photo, which he uses in a provocative interchange with the colors, images, slogans, stencils, newspaper clippings and other elements typical of (and original to) his work.
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Fairey bruhaha enhances coffers–especially lawyers'.
The Boston arrest of street artist Shepard Fairey, along with the AP suit and countersuit concerning a copyrighted photograph of Obama, are part and parcel of Shepard Fairey’s art–which as a whole is a provocative–and, now, increasingly lucrative–challenge to authority. Still, it’s nice that someone is making money at a time when the world appears…
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Review: Shepard Fairey Restrospective, ICA Boston
Kudos to Boston’s Institute for Contemporary Art for mounting a spectacular 20-year restrospective of Shepard Fairey’s work–which runs through August 16, 2009.