{"id":5761,"date":"2011-04-18T21:11:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T21:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=5761"},"modified":"2011-04-18T21:11:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T21:11:19","slug":"shepard-fairey-i-see-i-want-i-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/shepard-fairey-i-see-i-want-i-take\/","title":{"rendered":"Shepard Fairey:  I see, I want, I take"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles&#8217;s Museum of Contemporary Art just opened what it bills as the nation&#8217;s first museum show dedicated to graffiti, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moca.org\/museum\/exhibitiondetail.php?&amp;id=443\">Art in the Streets<\/a>.\u00a0 In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/2011\/21_2_vandalism.html\">article<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/2011\/bc0417hm.html\">review<\/a>, I explore the shameless hypocrisy\u00a0on the part of MOCA&#8217;s director Jeffrey Deitch, its Hollywood mogul trustees, and such graffiti superstars as Banksy and Shepard Fairey, who scorn property rights until they get a chance to profit from their vandalism.\u00a0\u00a0 The exhibit is a nauseating example of wealthy liberal elites amusing themselves with anti-bourgeois play-acting, knowing full well that the rule of law and bourgeois values will secure their own fortunes against the radicalism that they pretend to embrace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles&#8217;s Museum of Contemporary Art just opened what it bills as the nation&#8217;s first museum show dedicated to graffiti, Art in the Streets.\u00a0 In an article and a review, I explore the shameless hypocrisy\u00a0on the part of MOCA&#8217;s director &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/shepard-fairey-i-see-i-want-i-take\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[749,747,748,750],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5764,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761\/revisions\/5764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}