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February 01, 2007
Art & Design. Nike the Ripper
Art & Design. Nike the Ripper: We all saw what happened in Boston. Street art is powerful. These days it can raise the National Security level from yellow to orange. But, it can also do it's usual thing - spark good conversation. The Wooster Collective has some great commentary on a piece found in Munich called Nike the Ripper.
As reported on WC: "If you logged onto the Wooster site this morning then you may have noticed that we put the 'Nike The Ripper' culture jam photograph shown above on the site, and then not too long after we temporarily took it off to respect an email that we received moments after posting it. Why did we take it down? Well it was one of those cases where the artist who created the work left it up to everyone else for interpretation. This is the type of work that we like the most, so for us we don't need to always understand what something means. But this was one of those cases where an email we received prompted us to slow down a bit and ask the artist for some insight into the work."
Read the exchange between the artist and Wooster Collective [Here]
Posted by taj at February 1, 2007 11:51 PM