[...] > > Chalk on sidewalks is more or less encouraged or at least approved of, > tho. And in my neighborhood there is a lot of art that has been put > on buildings with the blessing of the building owners or even paid for > by them. > > ann
I'm gobsmacked sometimes at how gullible people are when it comes to art, and street 'art' in particular. I half-watched a documentary on TV the other day called "Exit through the gift shop", which is about Banksy and some character he collaborated with in San Francisco. As I say, I was only half watching it, so I may have some of this wrong. Banksy is ok, fairly original and quite witty with a distinct style of his own, so all credit to him, but his collaborator started churning out all sorts of sub-Banksyan shite on an industrial scale, and people were lapping it up. Frankly if they can't tell shite from shinola I guess they deserve to be ripped off. <http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/arti cle7041650.ece> B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
