Graffiti found on 14 Green Line trolley cars
(Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff)
Defaced trolley cars today at the Riverside T station.
By Noah Bierman, Globe Staff
MBTA police are investigating the defacing of 14 Green Line trolley cars at the Reservoir Yard in Brighton.
The graffiti was discovered at 5 a.m. today, according to Joe Pesaturo, an MBTA spokesman. Nine of the cars have been cleaned and returned to the tracks, Pesaturo said.
He said that service was not affected because the T owns a surplus of Green Line cars.
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Read MoreArtist of famed Obama poster arrested in Boston
L.A.-based artist Shepard Fairey created the now-ubiquitous graphic of Obama, who wrote to him, ?Your images have a profound effect on people.?
Associated Press
10:42 AM PST, February 7, 2009
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 today.
Shepard Fairey, 38, 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.”
‘Supply and Demand: The Art of Shepard Fairey’
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, police Officer James Kenneally said Saturday.
Fairey, 38, of Los Angeles, is scheduled to be arraigned on the misdemeanor charges Monday in Brighton District Court, said Jake Wark, a spokesman for the Suffolk District Attorney. Wark said Fairey would also be arraigned on a default warrant related to a separate graffiti case in the Roxbury section of Boston.
Fairey has spent the last two weeks in the Boston area installing the ICA exhibit and creating outdoor art, including a 20-by-50 foot banner on the side of City Hall, according to a statement issued Saturday by the museum.
The museum said Fairey was released a few hours after his arrest, but authorities did not immediately confirm that.
Fairey’s Obama image has been sold on hundreds of thousands of stickers and posters, and was unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington before Obama’s inauguration.
The image is the subject of a copyright dispute with The Associated Press. Fairey argues his use of the AP photo is protected by “fair use,” which allows exceptions to copyright laws based on, among other factors, how much of the original is used, what the new work is used for and how the original is affected by the new work.
A California lawyer who has represented Fairey in the copyright case didn’t immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment on the arrest.
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