Topic: Shepard Fairey

Rough seas for Costa Cruises CEO Pier Luigi Foschi

The National Post reimagines a week in the life of a newsmaker. Today, Tristin Hopper looks at the week of Pier Luigi Foschi, CEO of Carnival...

‘Istanbul Moves’ (1)

Most residents in Istanbul would agree that the city is one of contradiction and opposite extremes. A simple example of this is baseball caps and...

Ask Chris: Recommendations for Art Travel?

Shepard Fairey mural at Wynwood Kitchen and Bar, Miami. . Question: I rarely get a chance to travel and I am considering a trip in February, the...
When eighteen-year-old Kirk Hammett was blasting UFO in his bedroom and dreaming about getting his band Exodus off the ground, he couldn't possibly...
Where some see protest, others see profit.. . Capitalism has sprouted in Zuccotti Park, and one young vendor says he sees no irony in doing a...

John Baglow: Ottawa opts to see no evil

“What do you paint when you paint a wall?” Said John D.'s grandson Nelson. “Do you paint just anything there at all? “Will there be any doves or a...

Stephen Colbert sells his portrait to benefit the arts

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Political satirist Stephen Colbert is selling himself, but it is all for the children.The host of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," a popular program that mocks self-important pundits, will auction off "Portrait 5, Stephen(s)" next month ...

Artist and news wire settle Obama portrait suit

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The artist who created an iconic portrait of Barack Obama and the Associated Press have agreed to settle a copyright dispute over use of the original photographic image, the news organization said on Wednesday.Los Angeles-based artist Shepard Fairey ...

'Ganas 2020': Artist depicts fictional revolution

0 . As a kid, crossing the border into Mexico and back was part of Ernesto Yerena Montejano's daily life. His grandmother lived in Mexico, and so...

Famous RISD graduates

Anyone familiar with first-wave punk must be familiar with at least two famous graduates of the Rhode Island School of Design. It's the alma mater of Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth of the Talking Heads, and many other fellow students of ...