Movie Review: Exit Through the Gift Shop
5 stars (out of 5)
By R. Kurt Osenlund
Banksy, arguably the world's most famous street artist and certainly its most elusive, has fascinated me since college. An anthropology class introduced me to the prankster-provocateur's blithely controversial body of work, which, via spray-paint stenciling and 3-D objects, has over the last decade turned the streets of London into a kind of art gallery amusement park, transcending the normalcy of urban graffiti and causing its viewers to stop, think and, sometimes, gasp. Often political and often incorporating their concrete canvases to create illusions of depth and dimension, Banksy's pieces have rendered him a hero and a terrorist, a visionary and a menace. And no one even knows who he is.
5 stars (out of 5)
By R. Kurt Osenlund
Banksy, arguably the world's most famous street artist and certainly its most elusive, has fascinated me since college. An anthropology class introduced me to the prankster-provocateur's blithely controversial body of work, which, via spray-paint stenciling and 3-D objects, has over the last decade turned the streets of London into a kind of art gallery amusement park, transcending the normalcy of urban graffiti and causing its viewers to stop, think and, sometimes, gasp. Often political and often incorporating their concrete canvases to create illusions of depth and dimension, Banksy's pieces have rendered him a hero and a terrorist, a visionary and a menace. And no one even knows who he is.
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