Artist Bio
Contact info: artistpres@gmail.com 201 777-0391
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.
email: 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 AdversaryWashington Post 3/20/2000 Speech Activist 2; Capitol Police 0Washington Post 6/1/2002 Capitol Ban on Protests Nullified Court Opens Sidewalk To Demonstrators"Chronic Offender", Village Voice 2/24/98Newsday 12/19/99 A Thorn in the Mayor's SideNewsday 2/26/98 Artistic LicensesNY Times 3/2/98 Artists Arrested in a Rally Opposing PermitsNY Times 3/22/98 War of the PaintbrushesNY Times editorial 8/20/01New York's Art Wars ContinueNY Times editorial The Fight Over Street Art 3/4/98NY Post editorial 5/17/98 The ARTIST HustleN.Y. Post editorial 8/20/98 Free Speech Or Free Exhibition Space?NY Post editorial 6/16/98 Demonizing Rudy GiulianiNOTE: All Lederman images on this site are copyrighted in the US Library of Congress 1999-2006.
