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Artists Page: Robert Lederman
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4/9/2006 |
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Biography & Contact Info
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Biography:
Robert Lederman is the President of A.R.T.I.S.T. an artists' rights advocacy group in NYC. He has won four Federal free speech lawsuits about showing art on public space. Lederman has had more than 40 shows of his NYC and jazz art. His political art satirizing NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was depicted in hundreds of news articles and television news shows.
Lederman has put hundreds of his NYC and jazz paintings on DVDs along with original music. The DVDs sell for $10 each. He also has hundreds of original paintings, limited edition prints and one of a kind political protest signs available for sale.
You can contact him at 201 896-1686
or by email at
artistpres@gmail.com
To visit the ARTIST website go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nycstreetartists/
For background info allso see:
NY Times 8/17/01PUBLIC LIVES End Draws Near for Mayor's Artful Adversary
Washington Post 3/20/2000 Speech Activist 2; Capitol Police 0
Washington Post 6/1/2002 Capitol Ban on Protests Nullified Court Opens Sidewalk To Demonstrators
"Chronic Offender", Village Voice 2/24/98
Newsday 12/19/99 A Thorn in the Mayor's Side
Newsday 2/26/98 Artistic Licenses
NY Times 3/2/98 Artists Arrested in a Rally Opposing Permits
NY Times 3/22/98 War of the Paintbrushes
NY Times editorial 8/20/01New York's Art Wars Continue
NY Times editorial The Fight Over Street Art 3/4/98
NY Post editorial 5/17/98 The ARTIST Hustle
N.Y. Post editorial 8/20/98 Free Speech Or Free Exhibition Space?
NY Post editorial 6/16/98 Demonizing Rudy Giuliani
NOTE: All Lederman images on this site are copyrighted in the US Library of Congress 1999-2006.
For information on reproducing them, editorial use etc. contact the artist.
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Contact Robert Lederman
Phone: 201 896-1686
groups.yahoo.com/group/nycstreetartists/
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