Portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat By Shepard Fairey
Few things are more personally disappointing to me than people who promise something and then fail to deliver. (Note: people who behave in this manner are also sometimes euphemistically referred to as “liars”). Last week, both Geoffrey and I received email invitations to an advance screening of the soon to be released documentary, Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, which is Director Tamra Davis’ film about the late NYC painter.
It was as much of a scene outside on Wooster Street as it was inside Deitch Projects Gallery when political-meets-pop street artist Shepard Fairey hosted the May 1st opening for his latest provocative art extravaganza, May Day. In conjunction with Fairey’s recent, hotly topical mural on East Houston Street in NYC, Fairey’s new body of work celebrates the spirit of Revolution with recognizable images of iconic political personae as well legends of the rock and art world – from John Lennon and Yoko Ono and Jean-Michel Basquiat to Joan Jett and John Cage. Continue reading Shepard Fairey Celebrates the Spirit of Revolution at May Day Art Show Opening!→
Geoffrey went down to Houston Street today to check on famous street artist Shepard Fairey’s latest mural and guess who he met? Shepard Fucking Fairey! Me = Jealous!
It is no secret that I am a huge lover of art. Specifically, I tend to favor modern and contemporary art over marble statues and oil paintings of zaftig nudes and bowls of fruit. All due props to Michelangelo and Matisse, that stuff doesn’t really ‘yank my chain,’ as they say; but put me in a museum full of Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans and Jeff Koons’ gigantic, painted steel Balloon Dog sculptures and I’m in heaven. Being blessed with someone like Geoffrey as a BFF, it only stands to reason that I would have become a bit fond of the Street Art — because if Geoffrey is any kind of gay, he is completely and totally GAY FOR THE STREET ART. Just being serious.
Iggy Turns a Biggie (Art By Shepard Fairey, Photo by Gail)
April 21st just happens to be the shared birthday of rock superstars Iggy Pop and The Cure’s lead vocalist, Robert Smith, who who were born in 1947 and 1959, respectively. Happy Birthday, guys!
Robert Smith: Providing Your Requisite Goth Iconography for Half a Century!
