Shepard Fairey's mural tagged and cleaned and tagged again ... again

I can't even keep track of this anymore... the tags are cleaned off, only to return bigger and better...

Read the previous Shep coverage here.

Death becomes him

Hey now. Just catching up with the Times of New York from the other day... The newspaper reviews Shepard Fairey's Deitch Projects show. And what does the reviewer think?

"On the walls of an art gallery, his efforts look like death warmed over."

Mr. Brainwash gives Shepard Fairey some love

But first... As I pointed out on Saturday, Shepard Fairey's Bowery-Houston mural got hit pretty hard ...



Now, it looks as if someone is making some progress cleaning off the mural...




...while Banksy Mr. Brainwash checks in next door....




Previously on EV Grieve:
Historic bombing on the Shepard Fairey mural

Shepard Fairey's Cooper Square Hotel mural tagged too

After seeing photos of the epic bombing of Shepard Fairey's Bowery/Houston mural this past weekend, a reader said that he also noticed a small tag on Shep's Cooper Square Hotel work ...



... by the time we stopped by, the small tag had been wiped mostly clean... but you can still see the outline...



...this first attempt may just be the start of Open Season here too...

How was your weekend Shepard Fairey mural?

Just a recap...

Before!


Saturday morning!


Plus!
Paul Richard puts up a larger sign on Shepard Fairey's mural

Is the Shepard Fairey mural snatching babies now?

Previously on EV Grieve:
Historic bombing on the Shepard Fairey mural

Is the Shepard Fairey mural snatching babies now?

A new addition next to the Shepard Fairey mural

Paul Richard puts up a larger sign on Shepard Fairey's mural

On Monday, we posted a video of Paul Richard hanging a sign on Shepard Fairey's Bowery/Houston mural... the sign was quickly removed...

And this past week Paul Richard put up another, larger sign, as you'll see here...



That, too, has been removed...

Historic bombing on the Shepard Fairey mural

Epic.







Jeremiah has the history of the wall here ... he also posted the first reports of the mural being defaced back in April...

Shepard Fairey in Someone to watch over me

I spotted someone cleaning up some graffiti late yesterday on Shephard Fairey's mural on Houston and the Bowery...




Meanwhile, over the weekend, an EV Grieve reader said that he or she went to the Williamsburg Hall of Music ... at the venue, there's a display of Shepard Fairey's work to coincide with his current show.

Per the reader: "Get this: the venue has a separate security guard watching over them to make sure no one fucks with them. It was bizarre."

And last night, EV Grieve reader E passed along another new addition to the mural:

Watch Paul Richard install his Shepard Fairey addition

We pointed out the Paul Richard addition to the Shepard Fairey mural on the Bowery and Houston the other day....




...it has since been removed/stolen...

And now a reader sent along a link to Richard installing the sign....

Paul Richard sign removed from Shepard Fairey mural

Yesterday!



Today!



Previously on EV Grieve:
Paul Richard asks that you do not tag Shepard Fairey's mural

Paul Richard asks that you do not tag Shepard Fairey's mural

Per an EV Grieve reader:

There's a Paul Richard tag on the Fairey mural. It's one of those Paul Richard gallery label tags, a larger one than usual, more a warning size sign. Perhaps located near the earlier hole in the Fairey mural. It says, IIRC, "Please do not graffiti the mural."

No Leviticus posters, yet.

Going to the Shepard Fairey mural, and we're going to get married...

Oh my. In case you haven't seen this shot that Jill posted on Blah Blog Blah... On their wedding day, a couple apparently stopped to have photos taken in front of the illegal (maybe!) Shepard Fairey mural on Houston and the Bowery...



There's so much I want to know. Was this a planned stop? Or were they just motoring by in the Bride Mobile and spontaneously decided to combust stop? Or did the happy couple drive all over the city and have their photos taken in front of things, like the Kiss Mural outside Nice Guy Eddie's? (Now THAT is romantic!)

On a Sunday (Blah Blog Blah)

Shepard Fairey's Houston-Bowery mural is illegal, maybe

The DOB slapped a Stop Work Order on the Shepard Fairey mural on Houston and the Bowery... As AnimalNY noted, there are two options: obtain the proper permits for the "small building" or tear it down.

Here's a shot of the structure on the corner before Fairey's work went up...



Anyway, as an AnimalNY commenter commented..."its funny, that means no repairs to any damage like holes or torn off panels the guy who tossed bricks at it should go back, stop work order means no repairs under threat of criminal charges. you can only do emergency work if there is danger and with approval from the DOB."

So will the mural be vandalized again in the short term?

Vandalized Shepard Fairey mural unvandalized on Houston

Yesterday, the entire blogosphere a few of us (BoweryBoogie and DNAinfo ... and me) pointed out the lastest hole in Shepard Fairey's Bowery-Houston mural...

And just like that, the Fairey Swat Team has made all the repairs...





Previously... Jeremiah discussed the ongoing vandalism issues with the mural at Houston and the Bowery... (You can read those here, here and here.)

Your Shepard Fairey/Cooper Square Hotel daily update!

Getting a kick out of the Shepard Fairey mural

This week, Jeremiah has discussed some of the ongoing vandalism issues with Shepard Fairey's mural at Houston and the Bowery... (You can read those here, here and here.)

Now it appears someone has taken a good swift kick to the mural...



And we must have crossed paths with DNAinfo's Patrick Hedlund... who also filed a story on this.

Oh! And we didn't realize that our friend BoweryBoogie was first with this earlier today... Here's his post.

Your Shepard Fairey/Cooper Square Hotel daily update!

Your Shepard Fairey/Cooper Square Hotel daily update!