OH YES SHE DID: Meryl Streep Targeted by Street Artists With ‘She Knew’ Posters
Posted: December 20, 2017 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Activism, Barbara Kruger, Harvey Weinstein, Hollywood, Meryl Streep, Posters, Sexual abuse, Street art Leave a comment
The posters appeared in several locations in Los Angeles.
In posters that appeared in several locations in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Meryl Streep was seemingly depicted as a Harvey Weinstein enabler by anonymous street artists.
Posters hung early in the morning, before the sun came up, feature an image of Streep next to Weinstein with a red strip across her face with the text “She knew,” an apparent reference to Weinstein’s alleged sexual abuse of women over the course of decades.
The posters are a riff on the work of artist Barbara Kruger, whose signature text in red banners has been adapted and copied for decades.
The posters went up near Streep’s house in Pasadena, near the SAG-AFTRA building in Mid-Wilshire and across from the 20th Century Fox studio lot in Century City … (read more)
Source: Hollywood Reporter
