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SF Chron: Graffiti judged low priority in S.F.
Graffiti judged low priority in S.F.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Five years ago, Gideon Kramer was thrilled to be appointed to San Francisco's graffiti advisory board.
"I really thought I could make a difference," the graphic designer and 30-year city resident said Friday.
Three years into it, he resigned in disgust. He said he'd rather spend his time volunteering to help landscape local schools, as he does now. It wasn't just that graffiti was popping up faster than it could be painted over - it was that people had given up.
"People would say, 'Why do you bother? It's just going to be back tomorrow,' " he said.
San Francisco doesn't have a graffiti problem. It has a commitment problem. It isn't enough to get a few residents riled up about neighborhood taggers, or to get the police and district attorney's office…
Read moreSF Chron: Has it come to jail time to wipe out graffiti?
Has it come to jail time to wipe out graffiti?
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Like the city of San Francisco, North Beach resident Micki Jones is fighting a losing battle against graffiti.
"I paint it over and it is usually tagged again in 48 hours," said Jones, who covers up graffiti on her home and other buildings on her block. "It used to be weeks, but now those guys are out there every night."
When it comes to symbolic statements about a city, nothing speaks louder than the painted scrawls on walls. They say a neighborhood is either unwilling, or unable, to stop vandalism. Graffiti infuriates homeowners, degrades streets and undercuts civil pride.
And yet it happens over and over in San Francisco and has for years. How is that possible? The answers range from the economic downturn (less enforcement), to a lack of…
Read moreAP countersues artist over famous Obama posters
NEW YORK (AP) - The Associated Press has countersued an artist over his famous campaign posters of President Barack Obama. The AP says the image's uncredited, uncompensated use of an AP photo signals a threat to journalism.The nonprofit news cooperative filed suit against Shepard Fairey on Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan. Fairey's spokesman and lawyers had no immediate response.
Fairey sued the AP last month over his "Obama Hope" and "Obama Progress" posters, based on a 2006 picture taken for the news cooperative. He says he didn't…
Read moreShepard Fairey Expects New Charges in Boston - AP
Obama Poster Artist Shepard Fairey Expects New Charges In Boston
RUSSELL CONTRERAS | March 10, 2009 06:03 PM EST |
BOSTON — The street artist who created the famous "Hope" poster of President Barack Obama expects to face new vandalism charges relating to the red, white and blue image, but his lawyer said Tuesday that the accusations would cover a period of time when the artist wasn't even in Boston.
The artist, Shepard Fairey, and prosecutors went before a clerk magistrate in Brighton District Court on Tuesday. The hearing was closed to the public, but Fairey's attorney, Jeffrey Wiesner,…
Art turns ugly in squabble over 'Hope'
Art turns ugly in squabble over 'Hope'
Friday, February 13, 2009
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First Poster Boy, Now Shepard Fairey: Watch Out at Art Openings
Shepard Fairey Arrested In Boston
JAY LINDSAY | February 7, 2009 08:30 PM EST |
BOSTON — A street artist famous for his red, white and blue "Hope" posters of President Obama has been arrested on warrants accusing him of tagging property with graffiti, police said Saturday.
Shepard Fairey was arrested Friday night on his way to the Institute of Contemporary Art for a kickoff event for his first solo exhibition, called "Supply and Demand."
Two warrants were issued for Fairey on Jan. 24 after police determined he'd tagged property in two locations with graffiti based on the Andre the Giant street…
Read morePoster Boy Arrested in NYC
New York street artist Poster Boy arrested by police
Mysterious figure's work was featured throughout the city's subway system
- guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 4 February 2009 17.49 GMT
AP alleges copyright infringement of Obama image
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Read moreFm Melbourne: Clamping Down: The Graffiti Prevention Act 2007
Original blog post can be found at Images to Live By
You could be forgiven for thinking that the Australian state of Victoria just can’t make up its mind as to what it thinks about graffiti and street art. On the one hand, it uses images of graffiti and street art to promote tourism, showing images of Melbourne’s laneways (well, Hosier Lane, usually) on television and in its information guides (have a look here). On the other hand - well, it has recently passed a new statute called the Graffiti Prevention Act 2007, which creates a bundle of new criminal offences and gives the police new powers of search, which hardly seems to fit with its marketing of Melbourne as the city of cool street art.
So, what are the new offences? Well, there’s…
Nowhere to Paint, Nowhere to Learn
Nowhere to Paint, Nowhere to Learn (Find Original Article Here)
Posted By: Jason Youmans
07/30/2008 8:00 AM
By cracking down on street art of all sorts, has the city lost a valuable tool in the battle against bad graffiti?
As Monday learned after publishing a recent editorial in defense of graffiti, it seems no one in Victoria likes the lowly tagger. But in a city quick to buff the first sign of unsolicited spray paint from its walls while offering no alternative for budding Banksys* to feed their egos and make their names known, the Garden City is setting itself up for a tourism-dependent town’s worst nightmare—an endless cycle of really crappy graffiti.
Monday recently caught up with a decade-long veteran of the local aerosol art community to talk about the city’s graffiti scene, why there are so many trashy tags and what happens when there’s no place…