Banksy’s subversive stencil work, satirical commentary, anonymous interventions, street art influence, political messaging, and global cultural phenomenon impact contemporary art.
Banksy remains the most enigmatic and influential figure in contemporary street art, transforming urban walls into powerful platforms for political satire and social commentary. This anonymous British artist’s stenciled works combine dark humor with sharp political critique, addressing issues from war and capitalism to surveillance and social inequality.
Banksy’s carefully maintained anonymity has become integral to his artistic identity, allowing the work to speak without the distraction of celebrity culture. His pieces often appear overnight in prominent locations, generating immediate media attention and public discourse.
Banksy - Child Drawing Series
Banksy is - as you maybe noticed - on a trip through the United States und Canada. Following LA, San Francisco, Detroit, Chicago and Toronto, the worlds most famous street artist recently visited Boston. In addition to that typical Banksy artworks, which work with a lot sarcasm and which you could find following his route, he left behind some very nice and inspiring large-scale painting, which were called the Banksy Child Drawing Series by the Wooster Collective.
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Exclusive: Exit Through The Gift Shop Sneak Peek
As you maybe know, I already watched Banksy’s street art documentary at the Berlinale film festival in Berlin. Now - in only ten days - that great movie will come into the US-American cinemas and therefor legendary street artist Banksy published another exclusive sneak peek of “Exit Through The Gift Shop”!
“Exit Through the Gift Shop, the first film by renowned graffiti artist Banksy, became the hottest ticket at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival where it made its world debut. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film.
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Banksy Interview - New Facts?
Infamous street artist Banksy recently did an interview with the British newspaper Sunday Times, which - As you can read in the corresponding article - was made by e-mail.
Banksy talks certainly about his “Exit Through The Gift Shop” street art documentary, why he “don’t makes as much money as people think”, why the “amount of security cameras” gets on his nerves and even whether he trained art formally at school…
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Graffiti vs. Street Art: The Urban Clash
There’s a graffiti war going on! I think you all had heard about one of the hottest graffiti vs. street art battles. For weeks, new facts, info and backgrounds about Robbo vs. Banksy spooked through the urban art blogs around the world.
While visiting London, Banksy repainted a historical graffiti wall and drew criticism on himself. Afterwards, the Robbo crew modified all in all four of Banksy’s street artworks. The story of a graffiti vs. street art war was born.
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Mr. Brainwash - Terrible Artist or Worst Artist ever?
After I watched Banksy’s “Exit Through The Gift Shop” yesterday, I have a split opinion about Thierry Guetta aka Mr. Brainwash.
Brainwash made millions of dollars with copying great street artists’ artworks, and I don’t know whether I should think that he’s a mean cheater or only a clever baddie?! The onliest thing I know is, that the people who call themselves “Mr. Brainwash Fans” are really brainwashed:
*Hundreds of people lined up in the cold on Sunday to attend the grand opening of Mr. Brainwash’s “Icons” exhibit in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. Astonishingly, most of the diverse mix of hoodrats, art fags, and the cluelessly curious were ardent fans.
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Review: Banksy’s Street Art Documentary
Today was my Banksy day - I watched his street art documentary “Exit Through The Gift Shop” at the Berlinale Film Festival!
Right at the start a warning: Those of you who don’t want to know any info about the content of Banksy’s film should stop reading this article, the rest of you will now read my short “Exit Through The Gift Shop” review…
First of all I have to say that the film is really great - I love it. It isn’t one of these street art documentaries you already know, it’s something bigger! “Exit Through The Gift Shop” tells the story of Thierry Guetta aka Mr. Brainwash and how his “Life is beautiful” art show overtrumped Banksy’s legendary “Barely legal” urban art exhibition and shows how stupid the international art market works.
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Berlinale - Banksy Film Tickets
For about 2 hours, I aligned myself with almost 150 other people at the Kino International yesterday, to get tickets for Banksy’s “Exit Through The Gift Shop” street art movie - And now I’m a proud owner of two tickets for the film!
“Exit Through The Gift Shop” is a documentation film, which contains exclusive footage of Banksy, and many of the world’s most infamous graffiti artists, including Shepard Fairey, Mr. Brainwash or Sweet Toof, at work.
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Banksy - Street Art Movie
On march the fifth, Banksy will be with you! As BBC wrote today, a brilliant street art film will come to the cinemas in Great Britain. It’s a film about a world without rules, where one man broke them all. It’s a Banksy film! It’s called Exit Through The Gift Shop.
The film is billed as the world’s first street art disaster movie. For this reason, it looks like a film of a man who wanted to film Banksy but failed. Nevertheless there are a lot of famous urban artists, like Shepard Fairey, in the movie. I’m very curious to see the film. Here is a excerpt of the BBC’s article:
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New Urban Interventions by SpY
Since the mid-80s, shortly after he had worked himself up to the showcase graffiti artist of Spain, Madrid-based writer Spy began to deal with other forms of artistic communication in public space. Since then, Spy is titled as a second Banksy, because of the extreme innovation and audacity of his artworks. He therefore enjoys a heightened public interest, not only in Spain but also in Europe and around the world.
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