Exit Through The Gift Shop

If you haven't seen the movie of the title above, and you are interested in the contemporary art world and/or graffiti...see it. l bring it up now because of a recent news story in the NYTimes about it, one of many l've read about it. It is presented as a documentary on the contemporary street art/graffiti  scene, and there is some good documentary footage on how the graf artists ....some of them... create, and where & how. it seems to me to also be a put-on about who is creating under whose name. the key manipulator is probably Banksy, the most highly regarded of street artists, at the moment...and it's been out about a year...anyway, there have been many articles about the film, particularly about it's truthfulness. now the producers including Banksy are being sued by someone who wants credit for work on the film he didn't get. (l've sometimes been accused of the same thing). whether a put on or not - the movie is a great commentary on the art world...l recommend it.

one more thing: this movie supposedly portrays the incredible functioning of a street art follower/photographer which to a large extent is what l am, the guy writing this blog. and, where he supposedly started in 1999 (mentioned in the movie) that was the publishing date of my first book of street art, after 20 years of producing the photos in it, most of which you can see at www.sohobooks.net. Be back, soon.