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Contemporary artist Shepard Fairey (recognize the pic above?) became famous almost overnight for his depiction of Obama during the 2008 campaign. He’s making headlines today, though, for something quite different. LA weekly reports,

Don’t worry: L.A. artist Shepard Fairey, 41, only has a “black eye and a bruised rib” after a pummeling he received in Copenhagen, Denmark last weekend.

But the implications for Fairey’s international street cred as a graffiti and mural artist — a traditionally anti-establishment trade — run deeper.

The Guardian reports that he was beaten up outside a nightclub called Kodboderne 18 as he emerged in the Saturday-morning wee hours, by “left-wing anarchists” who don’t like his new mural at the politically charged site of an old torn-down youth house. They’re reportedly mad because of his Obama HOPE poster…

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SOURCE: LA Weekly