{"id":2461,"date":"2007-06-27T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/06\/though_splasher_still_sounds_like_something_gross_old_uncle_henry_that_coot_obnoxiously_announces_upon_finishing_in_the_restroom_they_do_get_props_for_vailiantly_pushing_if_i_did_it_back_into_a"},"modified":"2007-06-27T08:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T16:37:00","slug":"though_splasher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/though_splasher.html","title":{"rendered":"Though “Splasher” Still Sounds Like Something Gross Old Uncle Henry (That Coot) Obnoxiously Announces Upon Finishing In The Restroom, They Do Get Props For Vailiantly Pushing “If I Did It” Back Into A City’s Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"

All I know is that it’s taken far too long for O.J.’s “If I Did It . . .” conceit to catch on in popular culture<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Street artists have speculated for months about the identity of a mysterious figure who has become known as “the Splasher” because he or she hurled colorful blobs of paint at prominent pieces of art on exterior walls in Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n

The only clues left behind in the paint assaults were bold manifestoes — phrases like “destroy the museums, in the streets and everywhere” — that appeared to critique the commercialization of art.<\/p>\n

Now it appears that there may be more than one Splasher, and those claiming responsibility for the attacks have offered additional information about themselves.<\/p>\n

One hint came Saturday night, when several people showed up at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery in Chelsea during a reception for the artist Shepard Fairey, who is known for his stenciled images of the wrestler Andre the Giant. They distributed a 16-page newsprint tabloid with the title, “If We Did It, This Is How It Would’ve Happened.” The cover was illustrated by a photograph of a piece of art by Mr. Fairey that had been splattered by paint.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All I know is that it’s taken far too long for O.J.’s “If I Did It . . .” conceit to catch on in popular culture: Street artists have speculated for months about the identity of a mysterious figure who has become known as “the Splasher” because he or she hurled colorful blobs of paint […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sliding_into_the_abyss_of_elitism_pretentiousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}