Shepard Fairey

Shepard Fairey, a street artist and Christy Maclear executive director of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation talk about the inaugural year of the 'Artist as Activist' print project launched by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation benefiting the Coalition for the Homeless. 

Shepard Fairey, a street artist, and Christy Maclear, executive director of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, talk about the inaugural year of the 'Artist as Activist' print project launched by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation benefiting the Coalition for the Homeless. 

Shepard Fairey, the street artist featured in the new Banksy film Exit Through The Gift Shop, explains the film, if it's real, what it says about the art world, and why he continues to play along.

An exhibition of Shepard Fairey's new work will be on view at Dietch Projects in the month of May.

Exit Through the Gift Shop Trailer:

Art played a bigger role in this presidential election than ever before. Especially that heroic red-white-and-blue image of Barack Obama. You know the one. It's by a street artist named Shepard Fairey. WNYC's Siddhartha Mitter talked to him and some other Obama image makers, who confessed ...