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Kenny Scharf Arrested on Morgan Ave for Graffiti

Do you want to be friends with a famous graffiti artists? Why don't you arrest one? That's probably what the cops were thinking when they arrested a living legend, graffiti artist Kenny Scharf on early Saturday at 1AM in East Williamsburg on 209 Morgan Ave

Kenny Scharf Arrested on Morgan Ave for Graffiti
Kenny Scharf spent 20 hours in 2 Brooklyn jails for this little snake (image via ArtSucks.com)

Kenny Scharf Arrested on Morgan Ave for Graffiti

Do you want to be friends with a famous graffiti artists? Why don't you arrest one? That's probably what the cops were thinking when they arrested a living legend, graffiti artist Kenny Scharf on early Saturday at 1AM in East Williamsburg on 209 Morgan Ave

Kenny Scharf Arrested on Morgan Ave for Graffiti

Do you want to be friends with a famous graffiti artists? Why don’t you arrest one? That’s probably what the cops were thinking when they arrested a living legend, graffiti artist Kenny Scharf on early Saturday at 1AM in East Williamsburg on 209 Morgan Ave. Blog Art Sucks reported that Kenny Scharf didn’t show up at Michael Alan‘s art show in Chelsea as he was supposed to, and later texted him apologizing that he was in jail. According to NYPD spokesman, Kenny “two spray cans which he used to paint a snake on the wall of the establishment,” reports Gothamist.

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