Shepard Fairey Arrested In Boston

I swear I’m going to have to give Shepard Fairey his own category soon if he doesn’t stay out of the damn headlines. But all joking aside, this probably isn’t how he wanted to end up in the newspapers today. Probably gives him back a little OG street cred though… 0_o

BOSTON — A street artist famous for his red, white and blue “Hope” posters of President Obama has been arrested on warrants accusing him of tagging property with graffiti, police said Saturday.

Shepard Fairey was arrested Friday night on his way to the Institute of Contemporary Art for a kickoff event for his first solo exhibition, called “Supply and Demand.”

Two warrants were issued for Fairey on Jan. 24 after police determined he’d tagged property in two locations with graffiti based on the Andre the Giant street art campaign from his early career, Officer James Kenneally said. One of the locations was the railroad trestle by the landmark Boston University bridge over the Charles River, police said.

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