Unclear On The Concept
“Hope” artist Shepard Fairey just got slapped with another 29 charges by Boston cops regarding his artwork’s exhibition space … other people’s property. In an e-mail to the Boston Herald, the persecuted artist writes:
“I can only assume that the gratuitous piling on of felony charges by the Boston Police related to my long-standing advocacy as an ARTIST for the idea that public visual space should be filled with more than just commercial advertising.”
Either that, or it’s against the law to slap your posters on other people’s property. Piling on would be littering charges. City Hall citations for public eyesore, that would be hurtfully piling on.
Fairey will be in and out of the local courts for a while, as explained at the link above, and also has an issue to sort out with the AP over the iconic Obama image.
Previously: Art Encounters Life.
(Art above a Herald adaption of Fariey’s concept, rendered following his initial arrest.)
Topics: Boston, art, cops, crime
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:21 pm on Tuesday, March 10, 2009
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March 11th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Shouldn’t the public decide what should fill the public visual space, and not some pretentious, self-aggrandizing twit?
March 11th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
He’s an ARTIST!
His mistake: You can be a “guerrilla artist” and slap your stuff up on other people’s walls all day long, except when you WANT CREDIT for it and start bragging. Then they hit you with littering charges.
Genius.