BARRY MCGEE – HOUSTON STREET MURAL

Posted on 2010-08-30

Barry McGee took to the wall made famous by Keith Haring in the 1980s by covering the entire canvas with red spray-painted tags — a simple follow-up to Fairey’s politically charged piece, which blended pop art and social commentary.

McGee created “the ultimate graffiti writer’s roll call” by painting the names of well-known taggers across the massive wall, producing “a strangely beautiful, if not challenging piece of commissioned abstract art,”