Comments on: Art in the Street: A Hipster Lament

By: drollgirl

drollgirl — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 04:06:33 +0000

i just thought of 49 more things to write, but i’ll spare ya. 🙂

By: drollgirl

drollgirl — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 04:06:07 +0000

i am feeling the hate here. lol.

when i went and saw the exhibition, i had very low expectations, and i knew the geffen would be ROASTING HOT (and it sure was), but i kind of loved it. the cars were the best things, by far. and i happened to see the douchelord director of moca sweating his ass off in a suit while trotting around a couple of hotshots and that made me REALLY HAPPY.

note: i used to work for moca long ago (back when it had a director with a brain and FUNDRAISING CAPABILITIES, then later when they hired a fucking MORON named jeremy strick that basically ran the museum INTO THE GROUND). i support many/most of moca’s efforts and exhibitions (and many of the staff that work their asses off to make it happen), just because i love art and am pleased when anyone (even hipster doofuses) take the time to give art a whirl. yes, i am an art nerd.

that being said, i wouldn’t say this was the best art i had ever seen, but it was fun. and the exhibition brought mucho dinero to a museum that is always on the brink of collapse, so i am pretty pretty happy about that.

sorry for babbling on and on. you know how i can get. lol

By: Juri

Juri — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:16:48 +0000

Earlier this week, some gallery in Copenhagen invited Shepherd Fairey here to be worshiped in person and to paint a mural consisting of the word “peace” and possibly a dove. Tax payers of Copenhagen paid him $50 000 for materials.

Sadly for him, the mural was to be painted on a wall at an empty lot which used to contain the now demolished “ungdomshuset”, a youth club ran by squatters from 1982 to its demolition in 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ungdomshuset

People of ungdomshuset, many of which are not that young any more, are rather religous about the site and have a habbit of harassing anyone attempting to “occupy” “their” land.

Fairey’s mural survived less than 24 hours before words “no peace” and “yankee hipster go home” were sprayed on it.

The following day he appeared among his disciples in some club in “the meat district” (ugh) and was punched in the head twice by someone. Then he flew home.

When I read about it I couldn’t decide whether I should feel guilty or not for being amused with this clash of religions.

By: liz

liz — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:46:04 +0000

“I wondered what would happen if someone broke out a can of spray pain and graffiti’d the graffiti.”–ah ha ha! Imagine their heads exploding! I actually love street art, so I’m jealous of you.

By: Jaimi

Jaimi — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:02:38 +0000

Ughhhhh I just went to the most godawful exhibit here in Boston at the Institute for Contemporary Art and Shepard Fairey was featured prominently along with some other “street art” bullshit artists. There was also an exhibit called The Record all about contemporary art and vinyl and it was exactly as douchey and lame as it sounds. Seriously, some of these motherfuckers were trying to pass off cut up album covers from thrift stores as art. The only thing I liked was seeing David Byrne’s photo collage for More Songs About Buildings in Food in person — it’s huge and wasn’t digitally manipulated at all. And also this Japanese artist who made these absurd drawings about records which is exactly as serious as the exhibition ought to have been — not very!

By: That's Not My Age

That's Not My Age — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:59:54 +0000

Why not just set the cars alight, like we do in London?!

By: Cricket9

Cricket9 — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:48:58 +0000

“Exit through the gift shop” shows how the art – or maybe “art”? is fabricated. Fairy is an one-trick pony, IMO Banksy is in a different category.

By: annemarie

annemarie — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:13:30 +0000

I have a distant friend-of-a-friend connection to Fairy (heheh, not even going to correct that typo) and apparently he’s a total rich kid. I didn’t hear that he was a turd, but that’s ok- he’s a rich kid, therefore he sucks.

By: kate

kate — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:34:04 +0000

banksy or a banksy ambassador came through SF and did a bunch of rat paintings and stuff as promotion for “exit through the gift shop.” i guess that’s cool. sometimes i worry that nothing is cool anymore.

By: Dru

Dru — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:17:26 +0000

I don’t even know what a Frito pie is. Are they tasty?

I must admit – I’m a philistine who hadn’t even heard of Shepard Fairey before the AP photograph he ripped off to create that image of Obama. Lots of artists are a bit of a letdown in real life, and he sounds like he must be one too.