{"id":6596,"date":"2015-07-13T10:27:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T17:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6596"},"modified":"2015-07-19T10:30:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T17:30:43","slug":"fairey-arrested-for-graffiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/13\/fairey-arrested-for-graffiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairey Arrested For Graffiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/in-brief\/police-arrest-shepard-fairey-los-angeles-315933\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from artnet<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Police Arrest Shepard Fairey in Los Angeles Over Outstanding Detroit Warrant<\/h1>\n<p>by Christie Chu<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/wp-content\/news-upload\/2015\/07\/B99286594Z.1_20150709122823_000_G1PHV32J.1-0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><em>Graffitti art by Shepard Fairey on the side of a vacant building on Gratiot Avenue in Detroit. <\/em><em>Photo: Courtesy of John T. Greilick \/ Detroit News.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Graffiti artist <a href=\"http:\/\/artnet.com\/artists\/shepard-fairey\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shepard Fairey<\/a>, who was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/shepard-fairey-felony-charges-arrest-warrant-311387\" target=\"_blank\">charged<\/a> with a felony after he reportedly vandalized several buildings during his stay in Detroit, was\u00a0arrested earlier this week in Los Angeles, according to\u00a0the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/detroit-city\/2015\/07\/09\/shepard-fairey-arrested-los-angeles\/29913547\/\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit News<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Fairey, 45, known for his iconic Obama &#8220;Hope&#8221; posters, was charged with two counts of malicious destruction of property after an arrest warrant was filed in Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>The artist was commissioned to paint a 184-foot by 60-foot mural at One Campus Martius, a public park, and he openly told the press he planned on creating illegal works during his visit. Around this time, several &#8220;Obey&#8221; logos and murals were seen in the city&#8217;s downtown area.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/in-brief\/police-arrest-shepard-fairey-los-angeles-315933\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at artnet.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from artnet Police Arrest Shepard Fairey in Los Angeles Over Outstanding Detroit Warrant by Christie Chu Graffitti art by Shepard Fairey on the side of a vacant building on Gratiot Avenue in Detroit. Photo: Courtesy of John T. Greilick \/ Detroit News. Graffiti artist Shepard Fairey, who was recently charged with a felony after he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}