{"author":"Jan Brennenstuhl","categories":["Guerrilla Art"],"cover":{"alt":"Yarn-Bombed Albert Einstein","height":1860,"src":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/yarn-bombed-albert-einstein/olek-yarn-bombing-einstein.jpg","width":2480},"credit":"","date":"2012-08-01T09:25:47Z","description":"Guerrilla crochet artist Olek recently yarn-bombed the Albert Einstein Memorial at the National Academy of Science in Washington DC...","html":"\u003cp\u003eRemember the \u003ca href=\"/urban-crochet-art/\"\u003eyarn-bombed Wall Street Bull\u003c/a\u003e? Now, Polish street artist \u003cstrong\u003eOlek\u003c/strong\u003e struck again when she covered the almost 9 meters tall memorial statue of Albert Einstein at the National Academy of Science in Washington DC! Unfortunately, the city cleaned the yarn-bombed Einstein within hours\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOlek says Einstein, for her, was an easy choice since he was such a creative thinker himself. \u0026ldquo;I thought he might have a sense of humor about it,\u0026rdquo; she says. [\u0026hellip;] Presumably this kind of thing is par for the course when you’re a guerrilla yarn-bomber.\u003c/em\u003e (\u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/afterhours/art/guerrilla-crochet-artist-olek-yarn-bombs-albert-einstein-memorial\"\u003eWashingtonian\u003c/a\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe reason for Olek to be in Washington is the currently running \u003ca href=\"http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2012/renwick40/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e40 Under 40: Craft Futures\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e at Renwick Museum\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVia \u003ca href=\"http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/olek-albert-einstein-statue-yarn-bomb\"\u003emymodernmet.com\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"http://www.crackajack.de/2012/07/31/yarn-bombed-einstein/\"\u003ecrackajack.de\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n","markdown":"\n\n\n\n\n\nRemember the [yarn-bombed Wall Street Bull](/urban-crochet-art/)? Now, Polish street artist **Olek** struck again when she covered the almost 9 meters tall memorial statue of Albert Einstein at the National Academy of Science in Washington DC! Unfortunately, the city cleaned the yarn-bombed Einstein within hours...\n\n*Olek says Einstein, for her, was an easy choice since he was such a creative thinker himself. \"I thought he might have a sense of humor about it,\" she says. [...] Presumably this kind of thing is par for the course when you’re a guerrilla yarn-bomber.* ([Washingtonian](http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/afterhours/art/guerrilla-crochet-artist-olek-yarn-bombs-albert-einstein-memorial))\n\nThe reason for Olek to be in Washington is the currently running [*40 Under 40: Craft Futures*](http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2012/renwick40/) at Renwick Museum...\n\n\nVia [mymodernmet.com](http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/olek-albert-einstein-statue-yarn-bomb) and [crackajack.de](http://www.crackajack.de/2012/07/31/yarn-bombed-einstein/).\n","tags":["Art Installation","Yarn Bombing","Sculpture","American Street Art"],"title":"Yarn-Bombed Albert Einstein","url":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/yarn-bombed-albert-einstein/"}