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Shepard Fairey’s OBAMA in the Smithsonian?
If the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION has its way, a giant fine art version of SHEPARD FAIREY’s iconic portrait of the now-president elect BARACK OBAMA will enter the collection of its NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY as the first official fine art rendering of the future president. The only hitch? Money. The $75,000 price tag for the piece, which was created by Fairey as the centerpiece of his “Manifest Hope†Obama art show that took place in Denver during this year’s DNC, must be raised through donations, though word on the street is that the museum is close to meeting this figure. As if having a street artist with a criminal record branding a presidential campaign weren’t enough, this move can definitely be filed under the headers of “Hope,†and “Progress.â€
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Goldie predicts a riot in urban art
One picture is a self-portrait of the artist, an aerosol can in one hand and swearing with the other. Goldie has always been one to make a statement. The drum'n'bass pioneer's latest exhibition, The Kids Are All Riot, is a retrospective of his artworks, depicting social decay and youth culture.
"Kids have really been abandoned. Social community centres seem to have dissipated and there doesn't seem to be a community spirit. I've grown up on estates and to go back and see those places, it's not changed for the good. There's a loss of sense of belonging for kids – it's the reason they turn to urban art and music."
It's also why Goldie, now 43, started teaching urban art to kids more than 20 years ago. Goldie, who was himself a street artist and a youth club member, received after-school tuition from his art teacher while his first exhibition, staged when he was just 18, was funded by the arts council.
"I would teach kids across estates the hidden code of graffiti, to give them good composition. Many are still going as artists today," he says.
Tumor and Temper, two former students of Goldie who have made names for themselves as artists, are the proof.
"You can put a kid through graphic art school but if you teach a kid graffiti it's a different ball game," Goldie argues. "It's free-style. I've learned so much from graffiti. It's like going to the finest university in the world. It's down to experience – trial and error. Graffiti still has some bad connotations but that's so Eighties. When you learn a form of graffiti, if you can achieve the things I did when I was 18 to 25, you can do any form of art."
been so fuckn busy!
Ive been so busy lately ya'll!!! found a new train yard to hit up and this shit is amazingly sick. open range. more art comping soon!!!
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