These two are “Artlaws”
Some of you in New York have seen their work, but i can’t tell you their names.
Keith Haskel and Havana On The Hudson Cuban Food
Video of Poster Boy/ MoMA by Keith Haskel
On February 10, the Museum of Modern Art launched one of its most extensive and expensive advertising campaigns in history when it reproduced 57 works from its permanent collection and plastered the images around Brooklyn’s Atlantic-Pacific subway station. Then, this past Saturday night around 2 a.m., the installation was ambushed by two men. One was Poster Boy, or at least someone from his collective, a member of which was arrested earlier this month on criminal-mischief and misdemeanor charges. His accomplice was a less likely culprit: Doug Jaeger, the marketing executive who created the campaign for MoMA. Jaeger is CEO of the brand-management agency the Happy Corp and president of the prestigious Art Directors Club. Read The Entire Article Here
music composed, performed and recorded by javier hernandez-miyares.
This piece is dedicated to Joseph Cornell
JHM played the following instruments:
Kurzwiel Piano and Organ
Waldorf Pulse Synth
Proteus 2 Bell Sounds
Roland V-Drum
Electric Guitar
Cornellraga is a segment of a composition which is in progress.
I found Michael Perleman while i was doing a furtive Google search for economists with a Neo-Marxist perspective. That was two years ago. His blog Unsettling Economics then became for me a trusted source of information on this elliptical science.
When i contacted him, he took the time to respond to my query, and thus demonstrated how humanity transcends the economy of scale.
As the creative director of 17 Frost Theater of the Performing Arts in Williamsburg Brooklyn, I enthusiastically announce our participation in the International Poster Boy Book Celebration. We will be one of four venues that will be presenting “The War Of Art”. Join us in Brooklyn to defend art in the service of free speech and activism.
javier hernandez-miyares
Doors open at 7pm.
DJ Moni Pineda from Friends We Love will be spinning.
Free Cuban Food will be provided by Havana On The Hudson.
Books will be on sale, and Poster Boy will be there to sign them.
A world primiere of new Poster Boy videos will be presented.
Mama can you tell me why pretty bird has wings but still can’t fly, high or low, thick or thin, beauty goes as deep as painted skin.
Hear my story from of old, every true and righteous soul.
Saints and sinners side by side, no difference, no great divide.
I dreamt about a ghostly flightless bird, sang the strangest song I ever heard.
Mama can you tell me why pretty bird has wings but still can’t fly, high or low, thick or thin, beauty goes as deep as painted skin.
I ain’t gonna cast no stones, you got yours, I got my own.
We all come from the same place, don’t go preaching in my face.
I dreamt about a ghostly flightless bird, sang the strangest song I ever heard.
Mama can you tell me why pretty bird has wings but still can’t fly, high or low, thick or thin, beauty goes as deep as painted skin.
Painted Skin lyrics and music by Donald P. Johnson
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Brief interview with Donald conducted by WTPF:
WTPF – You have described yourself as a writer of “Work Songs”. What Aesthetic and philosophical criteria do you consider when you are making one?
Donald P. Johnson – Primal, rhythmic, keep you going, vent frustrations, connect you to the bigger picture.
The collection is dedicated to the Petits; What they went through was horrific and undeserved. the whole collection is called “work songs” and is dedicated to the petit family/a microcosm of society.
This particular song addresses superficiality.
The collection is a continuum, like “leaves of grass”
The War Of Art is the recently published book by Poster Boy. Watch the following video, and then read our exclusive interview with him.
WTPF: how would you describe the relationship between vanguard art and danger, and for you, which element is more important: the aesthetic plastic result of the piece, or the power of provocation of the piece? both of these elements are strongly present in your work, and i wonder if you plan the execution of a piece before you render it. also, please explain the importance of improvisation in your work.
PB: Danger is part of the medium. Without the element of danger the current vanguard would lose an edge that wasn’t really present in preceding movements. As far as aesthetics and provocation goes, both are necessary in art. Well, good art least.
For better or worse, I don’t plan much. For me, improvisation is protest against the urge to preserve, polish, and market everything. Something I learned from the Jazz and Hip Hop.
WTPF – can art change the world or does art only change art? does it even matter? feel free to elaborate.
PB – Art does change the world, but only for those who have the imagination to realize it.
WTPF – what do you think about this statement: “The ultimate protest is against the silence of God”?
PB – I feel every act is a reaction to God’s silence. Whether its protest depends on the person’s understanding of God/consciousness.
WTPF – what inspires me the most about your art, and the movement in which you are one of its leaders, is that a dialectical relationship exists between the work and the audience. in your case, other Poster Boys and Girls have adopted your methods, and have become protagonists. were you surprised that this occurred?
PB – I wasn’t surprised at all. I actually anticipated this by establishing Poster Boy as a platform for anyone willing to participate. People want to feel alive, but apathy is a serious hurdle for some. Which is probably why the act of illegal poster alteration, however trivial, has been so inspirational and empowering.
WTPF – Your soon to be released book “The War Of Art”, is in my opinion a poem of transformations of transgressions. the transgressions being the vapid and polluting influence of the commercial propaganda that you transform into art and revolutionary statement. Salvador Dali once described himself as a pig that consumes all of the slop of modernity, and shits out gold. Dali of course kept all the gold for himself: why do you do it? please explain what motivates you the most to do what you do.
PB – The book is a poem. A work of art in itself rather than a collection.
I used to resent the fact that I had no positive role models growing up. So now I aspire to be the role model I wish I had. Truth is what motivates me.
WTPF – thank you.
A Poster Boy will be hosting the party celebrating the release of “The War Of Art” at 17 Frost Theater Of The Arts in Williamsburg Brooklyn on August 28th. Come for the book, beer and music.
