Shepard Fairey

Son charged with murder of British art curator in Australia Antony Waterlow was armed with knife when arrested in Sydney for double murder of his father, Nick, and sister Chloe guardian.co.uk, Friday 27 November 2009 11.04 GMT British...

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Artist Olly Moss, previously featured on Neatorama for his parody of Shepard Fairey, has created a poster summarizing the weaknesses of foes that you regularly encounter. Whether you're fighting Pokemon, vampires, AT-ATs, or Achilles, this...

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Silvio Berlusconi's love life has earned him the front cover of Rolling Stone magazine as "rock star of the year". Published: 6:30AM GMT 24 Nov 2009 Silvio Berlusconi on cover of Italian edition of Rolling Stone The magazine's Italian...

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Celebrities are everywhere and so too must we be Lauren Bosworth and Stephanie Pratt artying up a storm at Maxim & Ubisoft Assassin's Creed 2 Launch at Voyeur in West Hollywood last Wednesday Kid Rock hanging out last Monday afternoon at...

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November 19th, 2009 10:00am EST Post a comment Add to My News Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers have launched The Superhighway Tour, a first of its kind online-only music experience that delivers 24 of the 48 tracks from the forthcoming...

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Artist Shepard Fairey and photographer Glen E. Friedman collaborated on the image above, adapted from a photograph Friedman took of legendary skateboarder Jim Muir. The poster goes on sale for $80 on November 19, in a limited edition of 450,...

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The dispute over the popular Obama poster gives the courts a chance to better explain what is fair use of creative works. November 1, 2009 Shepard Fairey, a Los Angeles-based "street artist," has made a career out of recycling other...

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Shepard Fairey has had a roller-coaster year. The Echo Park-based street artist reached a career apex when his Obama "Hope" poster was inducted in the Smithsonian, followed by a survey of his work at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art,...

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You have to hand it to the right-wingers. For them, any excuse to trash President Obama is a good excuse, even when the inherent self-contradiction and plain falsehood of the claim make them look as dumb as a box of rocks. Shamelessness is...

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The Echo Park artist has built his career on a combination of vandalism and expropriation of other people's images. The jig is finally up. Shepard Fairey, an Echo Park-based graphic designer and longtime street artist, admitted earlier...

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