Banksy in Hollywood

Famed UK street artist, Banksy, has struck Hollywood this last month with a few new pieces. His film “Exit Througth the Gift Shop” has been nominated for an Oscar which may explain his presence in the sunshine state. Check out his latest...

A Banksy Film

The Coup de Grace coming. It was announced this morning that Banksy's first film, Exit Through The Gift Shop, will hit theaters in the United States beginning on Friday, April 16th in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Dates for additional cities across the country, including Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, and Atlanta, will be announced soon! Over the weekend Banksy also released the official "one sheet" poster for the film to the right. ------>






The movie stars Mr. Thierry Guetta, an overnight art-world sensation (or wholesale, bogus creation), who produces work under the tag name Mr. Brainwash. Check out the trailer for the movie below.

Banksy’s film, Exit through the Gift Shop (the title is a swipe at museum merchandising and the fetization of Art), has made Mr. Guetta something of a shooting star. Just in time for the film’s premiere, Mr. Brainwash has his own New York City gallery debut. In a two-floor space at 415 West 13th Street, he’s showing pricey gift-shop art in his show titled "Icons". So is this all an elaborate farce? There are two ways to determine that: on film and at the gallery. The show is extended through May- perhaps through June- maybe longer...

Thom Yorke and Banksy

Official music video for the forthcoming release by Thom Yorke.

Available September 21st 2009 on 12' Vinyl LP as the flip side to FeelingPulledApartbyHorses. Visit radiohead.com for more info.

Subliminal imagery courtesy Banksy

Directed by Raymond Salvatore Harmon

Banksy work reviels the dark side of art

It is said that money is the root of all evil. Well in this case it just causes someone to slice down a foot thick concrete wall to secure and attempt to sell(I think the bidding is over), a simple work of art done by the notorious Banksy. The image is of Banksy's ballon girl(below) with two figures resembling airplanes.

What this post focuses on is the trend in modern art where a piece is made for profit instead of for commentary. However, street art or (graffiti as it is called in the law books) is bringing the art back to the layman. Artists who work outside the gallery and museum system do not have the constraints that control the artist to create. But, here we have the complete opposite. Its crazy that something that was created as a free work of art, is transformed into a commodity simply because someone wills it so. I feel that because they took a saw to this wall that so happens to have a work of Banksy on it, the work loses all value an becomes null and void of any price tag or aura. This type of work is for the public.

"One of the ideas was the relation to art as a commodity. I thought by doing drawings on the wall they would be non- transportable, therefore a commitment by the owner would be implied, and they could not be bought of sold easily."- Sol LeWitt

Snagging Banksy’s “Balloon Girl”



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