Is Poster Boy Still Good in a Gallery?

NYC subway ad vandalartist Poster Boy is all up the fancy galleries now! Well not the "fancy" galleries, but galleries nonetheless. But do ad remixes really translate to gallery walls? Kinda.

NYC subway ad vandalartist Poster Boy is all up the fancy galleries now! Well not the "fancy" galleries, but galleries nonetheless. But do ad remixes really translate to gallery walls? Kinda.

A new politically themed subway poster remix! The Post thinks this is the work of our friend Poster Boy, but we're not sure. It's a little slicker than his earlier political soliloquies:
Well now, our vandalartist friend Poster Boy has become embroiled in an edgy art world to-do! He's out doing authorized vandalmixes of MOMA posters. Uh, or is he? Yes he is. Is that bad?
The identity of subway ad vandalartist Poster Boy is now the most important issue facing New York. He was arrested last week—or was he? Either way, the guy is now fighting the power:
Poster Boy is mighty famous now. But becoming an artistic remixer of public space is easy! In this little clip, Jordan Seiler of Public Ad Campaign—a Poster Boy pal—shows just how easy.
Ha, this parody of the NYT's ad for its "weekender" deal is funny because it's true. Who doesn't love the Politics & Socks section? Note to Times: even aged hipsters are mocking you. Not good.
Now that NYC's most famous subway ad remixer Poster Boy got himself arrested, he's more famous than ever! We hear the NYT is even planning a story on him. For us it's about the art.
Poster Boy, beloved remixer of subway posters, has been going public, chatting with the Guardian, New York and at least one videographer. It finally got him in trouble.
Poster Boy let the Guardian tag along for some of his work, and mentioned that the NYPD Vandal Squad is squeezing his friends for information with which to hunt him down.
What has our favorite semi-anonymous ad vandal Poster Boy been up to lately? Just tearing down the commerce-based capitalist infrastructure and replacing it with a vision of public utopia.
"A Charlie Brown Christmas" remixed as life in an ad agency. They make Pigpen work through the weekend! Monsters. Click through for the video:
All subversive things in our culture must eventually be co-opted by the very things that they subvert. It's the American way. The American Apparel ad spoofer—who had a months-long run of fame for creating super-porny ripoffs of AA ad posters (which eventually turned out to be Photoshop fakes by the people at Stereohell
Anonymous subway-based ad remix artist and minor obsession of ours Poster Boy has been caught on film! All we had before to identify him was this photo(shop). Animal NY's vandal-in-chief Bucky Turco spent a nice evening with PB in a Brooklyn subway station, just cold maxing and relaxing and shooting the breeze while…
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Remember those Budweiser "Whasssssssssupppppppppppp!!!" ads, that made you want to crush and kill everyone in your path? Yes, well someone has put the idea to use for the sake of good. We won't ruin the clip for you. We'll just say that this is two minutes of poignant political genius, and if you don't like it then…
Anonymous subway ad vandal Poster Boy hasn't let his newfound fame go to his head. (Maybe he has? We don't know the guy personally). He's still traipsing around subway platforms with an X-acto knife and a tube of glue, busily remixing posters while slack-jawed commuters stand by unaware, presumably. After the jump are…
After lots of slobbering positive reviews on our part, the anonymous subway ad vandal known as Poster Boy has finally made contact. And he sent us a present: an exclusive Photoshopped work (after the jump). Which is outside his usual methodology, but hey, since this kid is on his way to being a star, it just makes it…
Poster Boy is like gentrification: he doesn't stop, you just get used to him. NYC's premier subway ad poster art-vandal continues to implore hipsters to free their minds using little more than an X-acto knife and some glue. And all the cool bloggers still love him. Five of the anonymous kid's latest, greatest works,…