Sunday, April 3, 2011

Exit Through the Giftshop



Saw this recently... it chronicles street artist Banksy and some of his cohorts working on some really inspiring early footage. The film is the subject of some controversy regarding the legitimacy of Thierry Guetta, the obsessive tape recording Frenchmen whom the film chronicles. Watch it, keeping in mind the contrast of conventional gallery art and street art and scam scam scam! I personally think Thierry is Banksy's genius character he dreamed up to totally dupe art snobs into spending way too much money on artwork valued purely on relative hype.

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