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OVER THE WEEKEND, stateside, Irish artist Gerard Byrne closed out the Hamptons Fine Art Fair with a live painting demonstration.
Collectors, curators, and art enthusiasts attended the artists’s solo booth in Southhampton. It was Byrne’s debut at a US art fair.
The Dublin artist was among over 150 exhibitors at the fair over the weekend. Byrne, who is known for art that has been described as “luminous plain-air works” and “dreamlike urban landscapes”, displayed over a dozen paintings that had never been seen by the public before.
Many of the works had been created during his artist residency in New York City last year. They explored the “geometry and glow of Manhattan’s architecture and streetlife,” the 67-year-old’s wife Agatha said.
On Sunday, Byrne closed out his time at the fair with a three-hour live painting performance in which he painted a vintage car in front of onlookers. The car was formerly a museum exhibit, and was painted in the style of Pollock by artist Mark Grimaldi.
Byrne had been appointed brand ambassador for the fair for fashion brand Todd Snyder.
Back at home, Byrne’s work can be seen in the Gerard Byrne Studio in Ranelagh village. His modern impressionist artwork is held in collections of the Irish government, Irish embassies, and Texas’s Citadelle Art Museum in the US.
His studio was established alongside his wife Agatha Byrne in 2017. Byrne has been working in the arts for 35 years.
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He pushed a police man in to a car and was fighting him in the car, a shot went off in the struggle, he left the car and was shot dead.
He was a suspect for robbing a store and by the photo he looks like a man that could fight 5 men at once.
What is the rioting for?
“What is the rioting for?” – The mob need something to entertain them.
Simple. It’s because he was Black. Perhaps if a white guy had been shot dead, this wouldn’t be in the news. Reverse racism at its best.
New plasma t.v. and flash Nike trainers.
Whatever happened to shooting someone in the legs? Or arse if they’re running away. American cops have a “shoot to kill” attitude
You missed the bit where everything you said is “according to the police account”. Two independent witnesses say the police officer fired the fourth and fatal shot while Brown had his hands in the air in compliance.
Funny how this information about a robbery should suddenly come to light now, five days later. I wonder why the local police never mentioned it until today?
Oisin. No Police force anywhere shoots people deliberately in the legs. Every Police Force that uses armed Officers train them to aim for the centre mass (including armed Garda)
That’s true Mick. The whole shoot him in the legs or arms thing is pure Hollywood myth.
Emily you can’t deny the Photos. Nor Can you deny the Hospital report of the Officers injuries. And just watch as the witnesses either change their stories or just melt away. The Suspect was a very large man and when the Officer attempted to arrest him he resisted, assaulting the Officer and attempting to take his gun. What was what one of the witnesses said ” We were walking down the road miding our own business” what he didn’t say was “We were walking down the road after robbing a convenience store”
No such thing. TV and films only
@John B “Perhaps if a white guy had been shot dead, this wouldn’t be in the news. Reverse racism at its best”. That’s absolutely ridiculous. It would obviously be in the news if a young unarmed white man was shot dead by a police officer. Race only comes into it because of a long and complicated history of institutional racism and relatively recent slavery in the US. If the story involved a woman no doubt you’d be claiming that if a man had been shot we’d have heard nothing about it. This is not reverse racism. Educate yourself, for crying out loud!
* and I should have mentioned an ongoing problem with institutional racism and racial profiling in US police. Young unarmed black men far more likely to be followed, randomly searched and even shot by police than are young unarmed white men.
6 ft 4, 21.5 stone. One of the biggest players on an international rugby game
If he could only shoot to kill then why not use a taser while they were struggling?
I’m loving the thumbs down from people who can’t be bothered to articulate a response
@Brian Magee I didn’t realise he was a rugby player
@John B Youre right in a way though. The fact that the victim was black is related to the people choosing to take to the streets to protest. It’s the only form of protest available to them. The legal system is not on their side. Neither (evidently) is the police force. What do you suggest they do, sit back and wait for the next shooting?
This is a Terrible tragedy, RIP.
But it is a sad fact that black males aged 16-30 are involved in a wildly disproportionate amount of crimes in America.
And the well-meaning apologists who excuse their actions as being motivated by the racism of the white man, despite years of preferential treatment and affirmative action for black people, are doing them no favours.
@optimistic
Wonder why that is.
Institutional racism!, pffft
They have nothing holding them back, Obama is president, positive discrimination, affrimative action, yet they still scream the racism card. Complete joke.
So it’s ok for a guy to jump a police officer and rob shops but the crowds go mental and scream racist when the police officer does his job, ?? Also so what if the majority of officers that patrol the area are white, if these people say they are targeted because they are black, isn’t saying they want black police officers racist against whites too??
He was a good boy,he’d done nothin.
O no…a picture of the teen in question robbing a store by choking the shopkeeper. But the liberal media only put out pictures of a baby-faced headphones wearing black teenager who couldn’t possibly attack an officer of the law. Well liberal media, looks like you wrong again, looks like this Mikey Brown fellow wasn’t the angel you tried to portray him as.
Bu bu but racism? Military something? Police State?
You’re wasting your life
Was he convicted of a crime?
I have no clue if he had a previous criminal record but I can see holding a shopkeeper by the neck so its fair to say he’s not on our side of the law.
No one tried to portrait him as an angel John. These pictures were previously unavailable.
With two conflicting reports about the shooting there is no way to ascertain who did what to whom until there is an investigation.
With protests, paramilitary forces being deployed and the death of a teenager, this is hardly the time to use the reporting of theses incidents as an excuse to bash what you call, “the liberal media”.
Still, any old excuse eh John.
From what I can see so far, the fellow got caught out as a result of being a maggot and ended up dead.
On the other hand, the local police seem to have been reliving their days in the marines in Anbar province. Nut bars on both sides from what I can see.
Actually, they did try to portray him as a helpless victim, as well as further demonize the police. It is plain as day
You’re right. Whats wrong with police shooting suspects anyway? Aren’t they just asking for the bullet?
He would have been convicted of a crime if he hadn’t resisted arrest and got himself shot in the process.
Just as well the police shot him then.
@Phillip Hogan To “demonize” a police who shoot the civilians they are paid to protect seems to me like the only sane response. Even if the victim of this lethal shooting had been proven to be the same man who robbed a liquor store earlier in the day, I still have no problem with him being portrayed as a “helpless victim” when he was unarmed and shot multiple times (including in the back) until dead by an armed police officer. Even according to the police officer’s own narrative, the kid was running away when he shot. If he wasn’t a “helpless victim”, then please tell me what he could have done differently at the moment of his death to save his own life? If he did indeed rob from a liquor store, that was a bad choice. If he did resist arrest, that was a bad choice. But neither of these bad choices justify his being shot dead.
@John Bransfield
“I can see holding a shopkeeper by the neck so its fair to say he’s not on our side of the law”.
Where “the law” is shooting unarmed men suspected of petty theft in the back without trial, deciding which side of the law “we” are on seems complicated. Incidentally, who are you including when you talk about “our side of the law”?
In response to red thumbs on my earlier comment re whose side the law is:
I can only presume you’re all OK with the fact (loads of supporting evidence!) that – all else being equal – “the law” in the US is on the side of white people. Young black men are assumed to be on the “wrong” side of the law as a matter of course.
@Optimistic Mischief
There are many black people who would disagree with that. I have been in the company of some who have yelled at the TV when something was happening: Stop resisting arrest, you idiot. Stop running.
If you were stopped by police would you resist and try to run? It’s insane.
@Optimistic Mischief
who are you including when you talk about “our side of the law”?
Um…. the people who obey the law
@Optimistic Mischief
please tell me what he could have done differently at the moment of his death to save his own life?
He could have put his hands up and stopped running
Wow, Claire, I don’t know where you’re getting your information, but he did stop and put his hands up. That’s why the protesters are holding their hands up as they march. (That’s why there are protesters to begin with.) Try reading MSNBC’s coverage.
I wonder how many black men have being shot by other black men since the Ferguson shooting?
Stop, that is too close to the bone.
It is, but the liberal media, and professional outrage associations who work themselves into a frenzy, never seem to get so worked up about the carnage and misery young black men cause in their neighbourhoods on a daily basis.
‘I wonder how many black men have being shot by other black men since the Ferguson shooting?’
A brilliant question. It really gets to the heart of the matter. Doesn’t it?
Hi Scip, just with regard to your comment on the ‘liberal media’, out of interest, could you share what media outlets you find respectable / reliable?
The concern for black people killed by other black people positively oozes from these comments.
I’m not sure why anyone would think people who are outraged about this incident don’t care about the generational problems of black people. That’s exactly the reason incidents like this cause so much comment, as it brings into focus the kind of deeply embedded problems that affect black lives in the US.
‘the kind of deeply embedded problems that affect black lives in the US.’ They see themselves as deprived because they haven’t got the biggest TV or car in the neighbourhood even after years of getting a free pass into schools and universities and being handed jobs ahead of better qualified people. Anyway it’s the looting season in inner cities, lets hope our home-grown mobs don’t get any excuse to copycat.
Can you keep your insulting (and thick) comments for the Palestinian threads? People are going to wonder whether your attitude to ‘blacks’, Palestinians and ‘mobs’ suggest a certain, very unpleasant worldview
@Fognostical You obviously don’t have the foggiest, babes.
Mark Kirwan is absolutely correct, of course.
I’d say more – but there’s really no point, is there? Only you can change your mind.
Thanks for clearing that up Scip
We have our own gangsters without having to turn Ireland into looking like America too.
Anonymous named someone else. Will they get an apology?
They haven’t before and I doubt they will start now.
Anonymous pick their battles carefully. They threatened to release details about the Zetas cartel in Mexico, well that soon stopped when it turned Los Zetas have their own IT dept’ who were busy traking the hackers down. No details were ever released.
It’s really sad to see the Journal’s comments sections becoming similar to the Irish Independents with a select few consistently pushing their right wing, racist agendas. One commentator in particular seems to comment on anything race related all the time.
I don’t personally think a kid who robbed some cigars deserves to be shot dead. If the victim was shot once in the car then you’d give the officer the benefit of the doubt and believe that there was a struggle and the officer feared that his gun might be used against him. This would be based on the CCTV footage which shows that the dead victim was capable of being violent.
However, the fact that the victim was shot multiple times and from 35ft away in the back means that the officers actions were still unlawful. The rioting is a response to what is perceived to be an unlawful killing alongside genuine grievances of a police who are racial profiling (and that fact is actually supported by the figures released showing disproportionate figures for random traffic stops for black when compared to white)
And again, the militarisation of the police argument was nothing to do with the incident itself but the subsequent police action in Ferguson following demonstrations so I’ve no idea how that is debunked?
Tell me Barry, what racist things have been said? Typical liberal garbage, don’t fall in line with your an
…anti authority agenda and you are branded a racist
Couldn’t agree more Barry. People bandying about words like liberal and socialist without having a clue what they actually mean, ignorant of the definition of both words, as if they are something to be ashamed of, when it’s quite the opposite. It’s just typical of a vocal minority on it’s last legs, a wounded animal lashing out, harping back to the good old days whatever they were. These people embrace a hawkish, McCarthyistic ideology which mostly stems from their conservative, religious upbringing, the product of being unthinking. One particular commentator describes themselves as a monarchist for god’s sake. Personally I would rather see them comment here and have their nonsense and bigotry exposed than sitting in the dark grumbling, we’re just going to have to put up with them for another decade or two. Just to recap on the aforementioned definitions;
1) Liberal: adjective: ‘willing to respect or accept behaviour or opinions different from one’s own; open to new ideas.’
‘Favourable to or respectful of individual rights and freedoms:’
‘(In a political context) favouring individual liberty, free trade, and moderate political and social
reform’
2) Socialism: ‘A political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of
production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a
whole.’
Barry one correction. He wasn’t shot at a range of 35 feet from the Officer. He was Shot 35 feet away from the Police car. And as the struggle to arrest the suspect continued outside on the foot path that would concur with the Officers account.
Very well said, Barry!
I am a moderate. I regularly bash conservtives on FOX boards. The difference between liberals and moderates is that liberals instantly blamed the cop, just like they blame the American government for every single injustice in the world. It is amazing to watch comment after comment of delusional nonsense. I honestly don’t know who are worse, the idiot cons, or the naive delusional libs
Excellent comment @BarryPM
I’d consider myself a moderate also. But as soon as I see anybody using the term liberal media, I stop reading. No time to be reading nonsense from children.
Good comment Barry. Its reaching the stage where the Daily Mail readers’ comments are beginning to look reasonable when compared with some of the stuff here.
Two sides to every story, and both tragic.
That poor lamb only went into the shop for a few sweeties and some pop and that shopkeeper rammed his throat right into the poor angels hand and tried to commit hara-kiri.
That seems like a very unlikely version of events. If only there were some way to determine what really happened… Like, say, how about a trial?!
Oh no, wait, too late. Suspect has already been executed on the street.
Even if your empathy cannot stretch to the victim of this shooting or his bereaved family and friends, what about passersby who might have witnessed the shooting? What about passersby whose lives were endangered by unwarranted gun fire?
What about the shop keeper whose life was endangered by unwarranted thuggery? Poor diddums thug. More hugs for thugs!
Yes, it’s also regrettable that the shopkeeper was a victim of violence (not sure his life was endangered though?)
Shooting a suspect dead does not change this fact.
If the shopkeeper had been walking past when the unnecessary shots were fired then his life would have been in danger.
I’m not sure hugging thugs is going to make much of a difference. But not shooting unarmed suspects dead on the street doesn’t seem like too unreasonable an aspiration for a civilized society to have.
@Optimistic Mischief
Good idea! How about an investigation and trial of the Police Officer before convicting him in public opinion and rioting?
Maybe the kid deserved / should have been arrested – but he did not deserve to be shot in the back-and the people have a right to protest- not to be beat up by a blood raged police who have now been removed-
michaelhenry have you have seen the autopsy report? How do you know he was shot in the back?
@Mick Jordan According to the police officer’s own statement, he shot the victim in the back as the victim was running away
Those red thumbing my comment want to offer any evidence to the contrary? Do you disagree with the content of my comment, or just dislike it?
Where are the people screaming about the police state? They must just have missed this article. Funny that. Not to worry, quietly back away and move onto the next outrage.
I’d like to point out that nowhere in the article does it say that it is him in the cctv images nor does it say that he did it. Just that he looked like the guy that did it.
David. Read the police report. It was confirmed it was brown. It’s one of the above images.
lol@ dave.
seriously, how much more do ye want? yea see, he was wearing a tin foil hat, you see that? and you know what? its not real, theyre actors hired by the police :/
will ye every finally go away. rioting, for what???
So, ok in USA to shoot someone in the back if they stole some cigars? Or do you have to be frightened also?
Gary you must be another one that has seen the autopsy report. When did you see it?
He was shot after fighting with the cop, not for robbing the shop. Selective much?
Doesn’t matter a damn where he was shot, he was resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer who like all policemen everywhere have to risk their lives daily to keep all the do-gooders safe from harm. The right man walked away from that incident thankfully.
@Fognostical Neither resisting arrest nor assaulting a police officer are crimes normally punishable by death, thankfully. Numerous previous cases in which entirely innocent unarmed black men have been shot dead sadly serve as testimony to the fact that the police-force in the US have a history of murdering the very people they are paid to protect. You don’t have to be a police officer in the US to put your life at risk daily. Clearly, being young, black, male and in the wrong place at the wrong time is dangerous enough.
“The right man walked away from that incident thankfully” – there was absolutely no reason why only one of those two men should have walked away from that incident. No one had to die, that’s the point. No one would have died if the police officer hadn’t shot the victim. Multiple times. In the back.
“The law is for protectin of the people, / a rule’s a rule and any fool can see / We don’t need no hairy headed hippies / Harmin’ decent folk like you an’ me / No siree”
What’s the opposite of a do-gooder anyway? And why is being one a bad thing?
They’re two genuine questions. I don’t understand this term.
Of course I won’t let the evidence sway me as I understand that each of those cases had its own merits. The officer may have been physically attacked in those situations or had his own life in danger. If attacked he must also consider his own weapon may be used against him. Another figure for you is that a police officer is killed in the line of duty in the u.s approximately every three days, going by last years figures.
There’s a lot more to this and other cases then just simply assuming police wrongdoing.
An average of one unarmed person is shot dead in the US every week. Most of those are black males. In contrast white militia can draw a bead on federal law enforcers with assault weapons and not only are they not even arrested but the likes of Fox News and GOP politicians sing their praises.
Only last week another unarmed black man was shot dead because he was holding a toy gun in the toy gun aisle of Wal-Mart. This a store group that positively encourages open carry of weapons – but clearly only for whites. This type of event is a constant drum beat in the US and police brutality of an extraordinary level is a daily occurence as anyone who keeps an eye on US news knows.
I should make it clear that that one unarmed per per week shot dead is just those shot by police.
@Sandra Duffy Excellent contribution. Unfortunately, I fear some commenters might not let themselves be swayed by evidence. But any right-minded person can place this story in a wider context
Jeremy Kyle should go out there and sort it all out!!!
Health and safety and political correctness in this country would preclude the announcement of the policeman’s name.
The Americans don’t bother with these niceties.
In what way would political correctness contribute to not releasing the police officer’s name?
Interesting tumblr: http://iftheygunnedmedown.tumblr.com/
Lol! I thought it was interesting. I wonder why thumbs down…
Scipio, Foggy and their band of merry racists have a heap of accounts red thumbing anything contrary to their hateful ways, don’t take it personally.
Did he have his hands up or was he running away? Which is it?
I don’t see the big deal here. The mother looks young enough to squeeze out a replacement welfare buck for the one who got shot.
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