Marc Jacobs vs. The Graffiti Artist
Earlier this week, on the night of the Met Ball, the Marc Jacobs boutique in SoHo was hit by French graffiti artist Kidult, who has famously vandalized Supreme, Hermes, and Louis Vuitton, among others. The hit? Kidult took a fire extinguisher filled with pink paint, and sprayed the word ART over the front of the store (seen above).
As a crew cleaned it up the next morning and Kidult took to Twitter to brag, Marc Jacobs and his canny reps turned the stunt on its head, capitalizing on the graffiti artist’s own work to the benefit of their own marketing: By Tweeting it out as “Art by Art Jacobs” and Instagramming an ‘artsy’ picture of it. Kidult, clearly on the scene, tried to make his presence known, but it was too late: Jacobs had won that one.
By the social media tape, onlookers were amused.
A few graffiti purists were definitely pissed at the scene of a fashion label managing to turn ostensibly subversive and damaging art on its head.
Observer.com
This past Wednesday the 25th, Patrick Miko headed up the first ‘Printapalooza’ event at FSCJ’s Kent Campus. The events purpose was to raise money for the FSCJ Student Art Guild. The printmaking students made a large variety of woodblock prints to choose from. They printed images on shirts and printed posters live for an eager and curious crowd of Kent Campus students. The event was a huge success! I’m proud of my art students who showed up to support the cause!
Artist Tonya Lee currently has work up at the J. Johnson Gallery in Jacksonville Beach. Here is one of her works positioned underneath a Picasso! Reflected in the glass of Tonya’s work is a sculpture by Barbara Sorensen.
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