Arrested: Obama Portrait Artist Shepard Fairey

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"Fairey, 38, of Los Angeles, is scheduled to be arraigned on the misdemeanor charges Monday in Brighton District Court, said Jake Wark, a spokesman for the Suffolk District Attorney. Wark said Fairey would also be arraigned on a default warrant related to a separate graffiti case in the Roxbury section of Boston."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h8D_2XLTb-i8gSzxwPM6kJ7Bh0oAD9...

Neither should it disrespect other people's property and way of life.

If you don't enforce the law, the law has no meaning.

Granted, we have yet to enforce the law in regards to war crimes or treason within the Bush administration.

But just the same, if we don't enforce the law, or only enforce the law sometimes, the law is meaningless.

And if the Cops made an exception for "street art" but not vandalism, then the police would become government censors of art.

Legal Graffiti does exist, i am uploading a documentary i made about graffiti in boston very soon...

Cool saying :)

Thanks.

For artistic expression?

What does SF have to do with banksy?

Banksy's in the slammer?

And pirates are the new ninjas.

Read his manifesto, check out some interviews, and I doubt you could judge him with this negative opinion. In the few cases where he has sued, it was due to the other persons integrity, not the art. By your explanation, I guess Warhol, Dali and Picasso were also douches.

I have read his website, i watched interviews, the punk is still a douche in my opinion.

Also don't compare people who are private (art gallery) artists, and fairey who is a privater hiding behind the image of 'street artist'.

His original artwork is in galleries all over the world.
Hilarious hater!

I'm with the Warhol argument. Warhol took existing portraits, landscapes, and even commercial advertisements and colorized them. Added a caption, and called it art. Isn't that what's happening here?

Not that I'm defending him. He's getting arrested for graffiti, which is illegal. He should be arrested.

who thinks "douche" is most overused term of 21st century? personally, i recognize a douche to be someone who uses the word "douche"

you can't patent an idea, only the unique expression of an idea. this is precisely what Fairey did with the image of Obama

Either way it does not matter, I dont like fairley and some people do.

The bigger point is he got arrested for artwork, which is a bullshit thing to get arrested for.

Hopefully all goes well for him.

i thought that it was andy warhol who said art is what you can get away with... :-)

Probably because Warhol got away with it ;)

There is a great scene in Tim Robin’s movie “Cradle Will Rock” where a young Nelson Rockefeller, in 1930, ponders the perceived fiasco of Diego Rivera’s mural in the lobby of the Rockefeller Center that he just ordered to be destroyed.

He decides that from now only non-figurative art would be encouraged because it is by definition insignificant so not dangerous to society & easily speculated on.