Early Saturday during SXSW, bleary-eyed festivalgoers walking through downtown Austin stumbled onto an unannounced art intervention: a “Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame” laid out along the 400 block of Brazos Street. A line of star-shaped decals, mimicking a scrappy sidewalk hall of fame, carried the names of dozens of wealthy and powerful people alongside QR codes. By that evening, several of the stars were already gone, and whoever put them there had not stepped forward.
Stars and QR codes on Brazos
The installation featured 31 star-shaped decals, each printed with a different name and a unique QR code linking to public documents and news coverage. According to the paper, the stickers were placed between 2 and 4 a.m. Saturday, in the quiet hours…..