Tweet Exit Through The Gift Shop comes stateside, it’s official. Banksy’s film site has just been updated with locations of US screenings, and they are as follows: NEW YORK: Sunshine Theater NEW YORK: Lincoln Plaza LOS ANGELES: The Landmark LOS ANGELES: Arclight, Hollywood SAN FRANCISCO: Embarcadero BERKLEY: Shattuck SAN RAFAEL: Rafael PALO ALTO: Aquarius With […]
Tweet Just got news that Banksy’s film has finally secured distribution in the US. From deadline: It has been acquired for distribution, sort of, by Producers Distribution Agency, which is run by Cinetic Media’s John Sloss. The film will debut in New York, L.A, and San Francisco on April 16th, and this will be followed […]
Tweet At Bonhams Vision 21 Sale in Knightsbridge today, a few hard to find Banksy pieces went under the hammer. Nothing quite as exciting as last month’s sales, but interesting to see the highly desirable Christ With Shopping Bags print come up for sale. Details of each Banksy lot in this sale are below ‘What […]
Tweet Don’t Panic are nationwide (UK) distributors of flyer packs at gigs, bars and clubs up and down the country. They’ve just announced that an upcoming pack will features an exclusive Banksy poster. A similar piece of course appeared during Sundance and Banksy in Utah. From Don’t Panic: After almost a decade since his last […]
Tweet A week can sometimes be a long time in the world of Banksy. Since what seems like a lifetime ago and the premiere of Banksy’s film, he’s seemingly pulled out all the stops to spread the word before the nationwide screenings begin this Friday, 5th March. Here’s a round up of the past week’s […]
Tweet Actual Banksy news follows in the next update, but for the purposes of a complete record, the Robbo “beef” continues… Not content with reworking all of the Camden Banksys (Parts 1 & 2 and Parts 3 & 4), Team Robbo continue to vandalise vandalism. This time one of the very few Banksy placard rats […]
Tweet Today Banksy’s film had it’s press screening in Leake Street, London – location of 2008’s Cans Festival. Banksy constructed a temporary cinema in a tunnel, minutes away from Waterloo in central London for the sole purposes of showing the film. Leicester Square this wasn’t. From Esquire: The cinema, nicknamed “The Lambeth Palace” and sold […]
Tweet So it seems long after Banksy left Utah the impact of him putting up his pieces is still being felt. In addition to doing the promotion of his film no harm, apparently he may well have inspired a number of local graffiti writers to get to work. Banksy Cameraman in Utah last month, photo […]
Tweet As much as it’s difficult to extrapolate from any one artist the strength of the art market as a whole, if we were to go by Banksy’s recent auction results alone, things can in a quantifiable way be judged as on the up. February has long since been the month when the major auction […]
Tweet Before Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop reaches UK cinemas, it’s being screened in Berlin at the Film Festival. Banksy 3D Rat from Utah last month. In a video message to audiences at the Berlin Film Festival on Sunday before the screening of the film, Banksy gave one or two insights: “I guess my […]