I read about this a week or so back...Slate of course took it to the logical extreme and questioned whether it's the death of street art. Of course, they don't answer the question...http://www.slate.com/id/2254894
It's a sort of interesting question. I mean, I'll try not to give too much of the movie away, but I think that's implied with the last half hour, where the guy making the documentary starts "making" his own street art. He's sort of a joke, though he may be in on the joke. Anyway, I was in a boutique on Main at about 10th the other day and they had a book of Shepherd Fairey art, and another comic shop near 22nd had a Banksy book. You wonder weather the death already happened, the moment these guys got recognized as artists worthy of exhibitions and collected books, and not graffiti-ists.
I read about this a week or so back...Slate of course took it to the logical extreme and questioned whether it's the death of street art. Of course, they don't answer the question...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.slate.com/id/2254894
It's a sort of interesting question. I mean, I'll try not to give too much of the movie away, but I think that's implied with the last half hour, where the guy making the documentary starts "making" his own street art. He's sort of a joke, though he may be in on the joke. Anyway, I was in a boutique on Main at about 10th the other day and they had a book of Shepherd Fairey art, and another comic shop near 22nd had a Banksy book. You wonder weather the death already happened, the moment these guys got recognized as artists worthy of exhibitions and collected books, and not graffiti-ists.
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