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Shepard Fairey wheat pastes Philly

POSTED: Friday, April 23, 2010, 5:00 PM

Filed Under: Arts | Arts Events Visual Art

Shepard Fairey, the artist who made the Obama 'Hope' posters, is hitting up Philly to give us our own Fairey-ized wheat paste murals. At around noon today, Fairey and Co. will be at Rocket Cat Cafe (2001 Frankford Ave.) today wheat pasting the side of the Fishtown coffeeshop. Then around 4 p.m., he'll head to Brewerytown to do it again at MM Partners (2621 W. Girard Ave.), working with the Mural Arts' Mural Corps., a student group made up of 14 to 21-year-olds.

City Paper has a nice little history with Fairey. We parodied the Hope poster for our Oct. 30, 2008 election issue:

But he also did our cover for the April 16, 1999 "The Revolution Will be Downloaded" music issue, which is, unfortunately, not digitized so I can't show you. But it's clearly Fairey's work. Think Obama poster, minus Barry, plus Beastie Boys.

Just Curious

Posted 2010-04-26 18:49:49

Were these two murals paid for, in part or in whole, with public monies (city/state/federal grants)?

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