Southie submits

By adamg on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 8:40am

Greg MacKay captured the former A Street Deli. And would it surprise you to learn there's a Flickr group just for Boston Obey photos?

Copyright Greg MacKay.

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warholian

By anon on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 10:37am.

ICA ad, fairey self promotion, and 'street' art all in one. Just the flatness of the image. Now I see the warholian connection the critics/promoters invoke. especially the boredom/emptiness and fascination with the commercial image. It kind of pisses me off, taking the street art genre and warping it into a billboard. Then again, I guess clothing, sneaker, and lifestyle-youth companies, and fairey himself, have been doing it for years. Anybody been to the exhibit?

Exhibit hasn't opened yet

By Rick Sawyer on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 11:48am.

The Shepherd Fairey exhibit doesn't open until Feb 6th. And its the reason that we've been seeing a ton of new Obey posters (and gotten a Flickr group just for them).

ICA show

By Allstonian on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 12:12pm.

The show doesn't open till Feb. 6, so unless there's someone from the ICA staff posting here I don't think anyone's seen it yet.

Re: commercialization of street art, Fairey's hardly the first so why so down on him? Keith Haring did it almost 30 years ago.

Fairey's girls

By anon on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 1:38pm.

Fairey's girls are showing up just about everywhere.

http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Arts/75758-Slideshow-...

Southie Submits

By plt3012 on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 7:58pm.

This is curious. I could compare this with the Gas Tank off the Expressway. Ho Chi Mihn, revolutionary-Ak weilding revolutionary farm worker. I'm a dinosaur. Where's my fossilised remains to be found? Perhaps underneath a future SAM sight! Not bad, not good just the way it is.
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