“You’re not anonymous when everybody knows your name”
hyde or die
Make your own Damien Hirst!!!
iartistlondon has kits that give you everything you need to make your own masterpieces. So many to choose from, Emin, Banksy, even Mark Quinn’s bloody portrait! I would love the Quinn, but I know that I would accidentally melt it by knocking it out of my freezer when I was grabbing some ice cream. Not a mess I would like to clean up.
“Six months ago we were invited to see a rough cut of Banksy’s film, Exit Through The Gift Shop. When the film was over, I looked at Sara, she looked at me, and we saw that both of our jaws had dropped. We were blown away by the film. We both felt that it was so much more than a “street art” film. For us, the film was about the human condition. Why do we seek fame and acceptance? What do we do to achieve it? That night we said that we would do anything and everything we could to help make this film a success. We loved it so much. It wasn’t about money, it was about passion.
For us, supporting the film on the site and in other ways comes out of our true love for what the film is and the fact that we want it to be successful. We hope you see the film not only because we post about it, but because you’ve heard about it from others.
To be honest, we’re not sure how long we can continue to do the website. We have no intention of stopping it, but one of the joys of the site not being a business is that we can end it tomorrow if we wanted to. The only ties we have to keep it going is our true passion. Our support of Banksy and the commitment we have to the film is at the heart of that passion.”
— Marc Schiller of Wooster Collective, regarding accusations that he wasn’t forthcoming about being compensated for promoting Banksy’s film Exit Through the Gift Shop
Looks like Ace Gallery owner Doug Chrismas decided to flip the Banksy he took in L.A this week. I check(ed) the link today and now the auction has been taken down, no doubt Pest Control sent Doug a letter.
I’m not too savvy on how e-bay works, or if this was really Chrismas or anything of actual consequence regarding this sale, but if it was, is it just me or does $5,100 seem like a super deal?
» Wooster Collective’s Marc Schiller Fails to Disclose Marketing Ties with Banksy Movie
“The most interesting people for me live in that grey area.” says Wooster Collective’s Marc Schiller, defending the marketing campaign of Exit Through the Gift Shop, a documentary about famed street artist Banksy, “They constantly confuse and keep you guessing.”
Perhaps these opinions explain why Schiller refuses to disclose his own financial ties with the film, while having marketing for the movie completely co-opt his twitter feed and authoring 15 or more posts on the artist over the past month. According to indieWIRE, Producers Distribution Agency is handling the marketing for the movie - a team that includes Schiller, Richard Abramowitz, and Donna Daniels. Schiller linked to this article himself over the weekend, but when I asked him over twitter if he was doing the marketing for the movie he denied it. “Nope,” he told me. Continuing, “Why would I lie? You know we’ve been passionate about this for years. We’ve been very close to the film for a long time.”
I don’t know why he’d deny his involvement either. Believing in Banksy before taking on the marketing for the film (as his blog clearly evidences) is no excuse for failing to disclose financial ties to the movie. Schiller does not offer an impartial opinion on films he’s being paid to market, but presents himself otherwise. It’s dishonest and abusive to readers and twitter followers who didn’t necessarily sign up to read endless updates about the film.
Tsk, tsk.
Nope, he’s not painting over the dtLA Banksy, he’s applying some type of protective clear coat. This comes after the Banksy on 4th and La Brea was cut out of the wall and stolen.
Update: Here’s a video of the La Brea Banksy being taken away. I guess the owner of the building did this?
Another interesting update from LAist about the La Brea piece:
The video’s source claims they asked the workers what they were doing, and they responded that “they were hired to remove it, and that it would go into a ‘big collection of art.’” A look at Google Maps’ Street View of the building shows a banner with the phone number of Ace Gallery as a contact, which now puts the legitimacy of the piece and the sale in question. JetSet asserts “the artist never confirmed the work was his, and the piece is now considered counterfeit,” adding that it “makes sense for the artist to distance himself from the work now. Banksy never confirmed it was his to begin with, so Ace Gallery and every other greedy art-star fucker can piss off.” via slippy
According to the article above, Douglas Chrismas owns, rents, or is associated somehow with 400 La Brea where he had the alleged Banksy was removed this week. Now here’s a question, if he wants to start a museum (and I’m assuming it would be in this building) wouldn’t you want the Banksy on the building? I guess not when you can sell it for cash…And then the ethical dealer/museum issues come up.
UPDATE: In response to Alan’s response to the above, I just wanted to clarify that I don’t think the ethical issue is Douglas Chrismas taking the piece down, if it’s his building he can do what he likes, it’s the fact that he is trying to open a museum and probably in that building and he missed an amazing opportunity to have a Banksy in his permanent collection. Instead, he cut and ran (literally) at the first opportunity to sell a piece. That’s dealer thinking, not head of museum thinking. Therein lies the ethical dilemma.
Reblogged from les adventures de slippy jenkins.
The mural, a 30-foot tall painting of a rat holding a machine gun, will disappear after the businessman bought the former Liverpool pub it adorns and promised to paint over it…
But after purchasing the artwork at auction on Thursday for £114,000, property developer Billy Palmer, 44, admitted he has no interest in preserving the painting, despite protests from art lovers.
“I’m not a fan of modern art, I can’t say I know much about it really,” he said after the auction at Liverpool’s Marriott Hotel.
“All I was concerned about was getting this great building for a good price, I’m going to turn it into luxury flats…
As an official commission, the work is a rarity for Banksy.
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Exit Through the Gift Shop, A Banksy Film
Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival
Reblogged from sometimes/often/maybeart-related.
» Two Banksy Murals Vandilized in Bristol
You have to wonder how he actually feels about this. Does he understand because that’s how he got started and applaud them for their boldness? Or does he think it’s tacky and dumb because they didn’t even do anything creative with it, they just splashed blue paint on the murals?
I (personal opinion) think the latter.
