Shepard Fairey x Westboro Baptist Church

Apparently this image is of Shirley Phelps-Roper, of the Westboro Baptist Church, from a protest back in March.  It’s not just impressionistic tweens, Democrat soccer moms and McGraffiti wannabees that are sporting Shepard Fairey’s brand these days, it’s also subhuman media children in the name of omnidirectional hatred who have joined his posse.  [...]

Yoko Ono, The Comic

Not in the “Yoko Ono does standup” sense, but in the short comic book by Eric Kostiuk Williams sense.

Monetize, Monetize, Monetize the Haring…

Nicholas Kirkwood x Keith Haring on Nowness.com.

Drown in the imagitivity! Oooh, the 1980′s are finally being “summed up”, thanks to the power of Swarovski crystals. Is there nothing lazy fashion designer with a bedazzler can’t do? Fashion will save and educate us! Etc…

Agreed. Agreed. Agreed.

Luna Park has called for a moratorium on Campbell’s Soup Cans in “Street Art” and couldn’t agree more. Even Warhol’s corpse is bored now, and this is what you get when you let the pot boil for too long, something unpalatable, that must be scraped from the bottom and that ultimately leaves a [...]

Staple Goya

I’m of the mind that Goya’s work, especially Los Desatres de la Guerra, has only become more meaningful with time. So meaningful that his painting, The Third of May 1808, demanded a re-creation in staples for an exhibition in Tel Aviv by Tofi Stoler.  There’s something very “MOMA gift shop” about this object, [...]