After getting tagged and cleaned up, Shepard Fairey’s Deitch wall has been damaged once again, but not with spray paint. It appears a vandal took a literal approach to the mural, peppering the shooting target with several holes, including a melon-sized one just shy of the bull’s-eye.
Image: Marina Galperina/ANIMALnewyork
How do you know it was "someone"? Maybe each hole was made by a different vandal.
Wow. A wall in NY…vandalized. A mural at that? That's like saying, some birds ate some breadcrumbs. Its amazing he didn't get mugged while painting it.
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"didn't get mugged painting it." -. you watch too many movies.
SHEPARD FAIREY IS DOING A CO-BRAND WITH TARGET. HE'S SLIPPING IN THE TARGET AD TO HELP START THE BUZZ FOR WHEN HIS CO-BRAND OFFICIALLY LAUNCHES.
The amount of promotion prior to the exhibit's opening is quite over-saturating, however somewhat appropriate given that its host (Deitch Projects) is closing. Any commentary on our feelings towards the gallery as entity will be withheld, focusing only on that of its final contents before it is assumably turned into a storefront (however, what's really the difference? the quality of product will still be equally as poor). Fairey has long been a name well recognized in the design world, and it is only appropriate that his is a bastardization of "art" (product) which is the final centerpiece in that house of waste. In keeping with his past output, said artist kept his over-glorifed household wallpaper designs close to home, with his stereotypical imagery unwavering throughout, challenging the viewer as seldom as the "lowest common denominator" mentality with which it was produced. His pseudo-political overtones are undoubtedly hypocritical- this same "artist" is, nary two years later, attempting to criticize the same neo-fascist governmental system which he supported, and even catapulted this false image of "change" unto the eyes of his countrymen. Such a maneuver screams of cultural parasitism to whichever angle may garner maximum popular attention, and therefore the most commercially viable and earn the most capital. For Fairey is nothing more than a swindler (coincidence I think not), selling his vapid imagery to a commoditized unknowing public. To consider this art, nay, to even compliment such drivel is to disservice humanity as a whole, and the word itself.