Tag: Shepard Fairey

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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. “

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.

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 to be going to rack and ruin, and it’s fun to have something new to think about.