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Marble Tulip Juicy Tree did a great job composing this shot at the ICA. The reflection gives you a symmetrical look and feel, and it gives the shot a feeling of great space. The people in the back help draw you into the photo and there is enough of the outside world in the reflection, to allow you to explore.

Shepard Fairey's trial on 14 counts of vandalism ended today when Fairey entered into a plea agreement, Suffolk County prosecutors say. Fairey pleaded guilty to one count of vandalism from 2000 and to two counts of vandalism from 2009. As a part of the agreement, Fairey must pay $2,000 to a graffiti clean-up company and may not possess "the tools of the trade"—graffiti related materials—while in the city of Boston. Fairey's "spokesman" Jay Strell said in a press release that "Shepard is very pleased to have the Boston case behind him and return his attention to making art." The ICA, which had its opening gala for Fairey's current exhibition interrupted by his arrest, plans to have a make-up party on July 31. The pricey tickets to Obey Experiment REDUX have, like Fairey himself, sold out.

Escher-esque in appearance, this photo by Pixilista is an excellent example of creative perspective. Taken at the ICA, the interesting patterns and geometric shapes really take you through the photo.

                 

Dan Deacon and the Wham City crew compose the most irresistible arts community in America, consistently producing great music and art and promoting it in new and challenging ways. So it pains Bostonist to no end when he discovered the answer to the following equation last night: Experiment + ICA = Epic Fail

Today's shot by leela.a is a superb. The vibrant colors and repeating elements are fun to look at, while the reflections and the wall add depth.

          

Coming from North Adams, western Mass.'s wilderness outpost of contemporary art, the Books delivered their thoughtful concepts to the ICA on Friday night* via a Postal Service of gentle electronica and indie (soft) rock boy vocals. Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong also brought several closets' worth of tightly-edited found footage to match their pop musique concrète. A mood of inexplicable optimism pervaded, in the split-screen video of animals stampeding forth into an avant-garde National Geographic documentary, in the birdsong stitched together into makeshift jazz, and the virtuosic solos built from archived laughter.

Continuing our coverage of last weekend's Design as Social Agent conference at the ICA, today we summarize "Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century Totalitarian State," a talk given by Steven Heller based on his book of the same name, and the culminating talk "Something Borrowed, Something True," which explored issues of appropriation in art.

The Design as Social Agent conference yesterday at the ICA addressed the role of art and design in myriad situations, from Shepard Fairey’s Hope poster to Adolf Hitler’s reappropriation of the once-inspirational swastika for anti-Semitic purposes. The day raised more questions than it answered, but brought up several good points directly related to how design affects our everday lives—for better or for worse.

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It was bound to happen. A day after street artist Shepard Fairey protested the timing of his arrest, somebody at the Wooster Collective street art blog has run a lengthy narrative suggesting a Boston police conspiracy designed to bring down Our Popular Mayor.

With some recent controversy about Shepard Fairey in the news, we thought we'd bring you this fantastic shot by The.D.80.Project. The.D.80.Project used a fisheye to create this photo of the VIP opening of Fairey's Supply And Demand. We love the small, colorful artwork on the back wall competing with the large "Obey" artwork on the sides. Add to that some nice symmetry and you're got a recipe for success.

Sure, Shepard Fairey wasn't able to make his DJ gig at the Institute of Contemporary Art the other night, but the man isn't exactly known for his skillz on the board. Good thing the other notable music performance for the weekend won't be interrupted by an arrest for vandalism. (That is, unless Bostonist isn't aware of a certain musical duo's secret wall-scrawling career.)

            

Controversial street artist Shepard Fairey may have been a notorious no-show at his own party last night at the ICA (he was busy getting arrested outside his hotel) but that didn't stop the already-assembled Friday night crowd from blissfully grinding the night away. DJ Z-Trip came to the revelers' rescue by spinning in Fairey's place, continuing what was supposed to be an opening set well into the wee hours. The crowd was a mix of street art devotees and hipsters looking to scope out the "Yes We Can!" singles scene. Fairey was indeed missed, but the revelers who packed into the sold-out the OBEY Experiment event didn't let a little Bo-Po busting bring them down. Below, the photographic proof. (Photos and text by Jenna Scherer.)

The Globe reports that Shepard Fairey, prolific paster of paste-ups and purveyor of Obama-flavored Hope™, was arrested on his way to DJing an "Experiment" at the ICA last night. Two outstanding warrants, but the article doesn't specify the nature of the artist's alleged crimes—perhaps it has something to do with the contents of this map? Might a presidential pardon be in order?

In the Shepard Fairey exhibit which opens today for the general public at the Institute of Contemporary Art, there is a quotation by Andy Warhol, one of Fairey’s main influences if not his most important.

Shepard Fairey, he of the ubiquitous Obama poster, is coming to the ICA this week. On Thursday, he’ll introduce a new exhibit, “Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand”, and give a talk at 6:30pm. The lecture is sold out already, but you can still catch a glimpse of the artist as he takes over the decks on Friday, Feb. 6 for the next installment of the ICA’s “Experiment”, the museum’s art event-slash-dance party. (Tickets available in advance: $25 general admission; $20 members, students, and seniors, 21+ only).

 

Tara Donovan and Rachel Whiteread are among the world's finest sculptors. It is uplifting to note that these two women (working in a traditionally male-dominated field) both have solo shows in Boston's world class museums.

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On Sunday, the Ditson Festival of Contemporary Music's last pair of concerts at the ICA began with two people and finished with over sixty, in a glass box on the harbor. The former were Matt Haimovitz, on cello, and Geoff Burleson, on (and in) piano. Children standing on the postmodern boardwalk outside pressed their faces against the window as Burleson hit keys with one hand and reached in with the other to pluck at the piano's viscera, as Augusta Read Thomas's "Cantos for Slava" (2008) required. When Haimovitz wasn't wringing long, doleful cries from his instrument, he too plucked, as if the cello were a tall, fat lute.

       

Friday night's installment of the Ditson Festival of Contemporary Music was all about text. Whole, grammatical sentences; comprehensible, English, (mostly) well-enunciated; no Italian arias, no liturgical Latin, no repurposed Sanskrit, neither Einstein nor beach—this is not what Bostonist has come to expect from classical music, contemporary or otherwise.

      

Firebird Ensemble, based in Somerville and outfitted like an accomplished H&M ad in black and red and sparkling knitwear, opened the Ditson Festival of Contemporary Music on Thursday night. They began with a darkly animated piece that sounded like a fit night of half-sleep in a bed of swaying strings, heckled by lonely trills of from a flute and the footsteps of a piano that approached like a serial killer. Never has sudden bongoing sounded more ominous to Bostonist's ears. (Leafing through the program after the fact, we saw that the composer, Curtis Hughes, has titled it, in lowercase, "danger garden".)

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Last Thursday, the soft light of dusk lingered in the theatre at the Institute for Contemporary Arts, where floor-to-ceiling windows let you see the Boston Harbor from two sides. Yachts, Harbor Cruisers, and sailboats passed in the distance, backgrounded by the Logan airport control tower on one side and the Custom House clock tower on the other. In the middle of the room, on an oriental rug spread across the hardwood floor, a set of five instruments sat bunched.

--Meet the allegedly worst colleague ever: Revere police officer Evan Franklin may be fired because he is accused of running away after Officer Dan Talbot was shot in the head and killed behind Revere High School. He is also accused of lying to investigators after the incident. The officers were off-duty but had been drinking before the incident. [WBZ, background: Bostonist]

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Waking up to an everyday landscape purified and made strange by snow on the day after seeing DJ Spooky’s Subliminal Strings: Nature Morte musical performance was a perfect reflection of the concert itself. Starting out with a familiar, instrument-based backdrop, Spooky built an electronic scaffolding on top that both complemented the more traditional sounds and allowed them to become even more breathtaking. While built on recognizable notes and tonal systems, the conversational interchange of Spooky’s equipment and the musicians’ instruments created an uncannily attractive yet innovative performance that was perfectly echoed in the unheimliche buildings, streets, and open spaces we all saw this morning.