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So Shepard Fairey came to Philadelphia to art-up our local coffee shop. (Magnifique iced coffee if anyone is looking.)
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As we sip the delicious brew, sitting on that stoop right there on the right with our pups, I couldn't stop thinking about Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Fairey started with OBEY in the 1990s, after a stint in the BFA program at RISD.
Basquit died an international art star from a drug overdose on my seventh birthday in August 1988.
But before that he became known for his "political-poetical" grafitti in NYC in the early 1980s after droppping out of HS in 1979. He tagged under the name SAMO.
Connected romantically to an early version of Madonna, Basquit worked collaboratively with Andy Warhol, and would often work on his paintings in Armani suits, later appearing in public in the same paint splattered $1000 suits.
You can read more about Basquit here, and see more of his work here and here.
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