Shepard Fairey “May Day” Mural Is Illegal
First spotted by the Animal New York [http://animalnewyork.com/2010/05/is-shepard-faireys-legal-mural-illegal] blog, the New York Times [http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/fairey-mural-gets-thumbs-down-from-buildings-department/] reported that Shepard Fairey’s May Day illegal mural on Hous
Just when the world thought Shepard Fairey had sold-out for the sanctioned art world, the New York Times confirmed that the New York City Department of Buildings “issued a stop-work order and an Environment Control Board violation this weekend to Elizabeth Houston Associates, the owner of a building on Houston Street near the Bowery on which Mr. Fairey recently installed a mural connected with his show at Deitch Projects in Soho.”
First spotted by the Animal New York blog, the Times reported that the violation may cost the artist and his people $25,000 in fines. Considering Fairey’s past legal problems, clancco.com is probably right to assume that “one would think that by now Shepard Fairey would have a lawyer on retainer.”
Does that mean Fairey gets some of his “street cred” back?
