News:Artsist Kenny Scharf, whose work can be sold for thousands, tells The Post about his Brooklyn arrest for graffiti

NYPost By JESSICA SIMEONE

A well-known graffiti artist was busted tagging a wall in Bushwick — and he says star-struck cops Googled him while he was in a holding cell.

Kenny Scharf, 55, said he had a cameraman with him Saturday as he was tagging a wall on Morgan Avenue.

While he was spraying a cartoon snake, cops rolled up and arrested him.

The artist was part of the East Village art scene of the 1980s and rose to fame with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring.

“The initial cops that took me in liked what I did. They knew the mural I did on Metropolitan Avenue,” Scharf told The Post.

KENNY SCHARF 

Says cops were star struck.

They Googled me, and they were asking me all different things about my career,” he added.

Scharf, who has a show at the Paul Kasmin Gallery on West 27th Street, was arraigned on charges of attempted criminal mischief, attempted making graffiti and possession of graffiti instruments.

 

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