Banksy in L.A.
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sorry for yet another Banksy thread, but I just returned from the semi secret Bansky art show in downtown L.A.. If you're anywhere near LA this weekend, you need to see this.
http://www.banksy.co.uk/index2.h…
Although I didn't get to see it (it wasn't there this afternoon), apparently there is a live elephant as part of the show. As well as many many paintings, sculpture and video.
The location is kind of difficult to find, its downtown off the 10 at santa fe. Just look for the crowds of people waiting around. Take a camera, but no camcorders.
fockin do this!
- mtgentry0
I didnt think the show was that great. His work is best seen out in public where it was intended, not in a gallery setting.
The work isnt very strong when its up on the wall by itself. The anti-capitalist catchparases are nothing new- Barbara Kruger was doing that stuff in the 60's.
- ********0
good one dude. I should have mentioned that the only drawback to the show were the armies of hipsters.
wayyy too cool for school to be bothered, dropping names like Kruger.
You think art and anti-capitolism started in the 60's? where the fuck do you think constructivism comes from?
Fuckin hell, I give up on these myspace-haircut-wearing knobs.
- dbloc0
went there right when it opened today. I thought it was overall a good show. I missed the elephant though. Saw kirsten dunst walking through.
- horton0
what was the point of the elephant?
hope he had a fcking brilliant artist statement to justify dragging an elephant out for a day on the streets of LA.
-1 bansky (pending).
- anayafx0
DARN!
2 hours and 45 minutes to late.....
How the hell did I not hear about this?
im down in santa ana and was getting ready to drive there right now at 10 pm!seriously dissapointed... im gonna be in LA tommorow, am gonna swing by and see if anything is still going on.
- BANKattack0
indeed the artwork was out of place. It loses it worth in a gallery where Angelina and Brad have a private viewing. After talking to a curator about the show, I decided I too agreed with her: his stuff is interesting, beautiful, "cool", but really only scratches the surface if you want to call it "art". I went to the show, enjoyed it, and could care less about the fucking elephant, because how often do you see an elephant? - although I enjoyed imagining it going crazy and trampling the hundreds of hipsters with their emo hair and tight fitting jeans.
- fresnobob0
Yeah man, that shit was sooo secret that there was an article in the LA Times about how animal rights activists were pissed he painted an elephant for it.
- fresnobob0
Oh , and dude, stop trying to play it like your so cool by making fun of people for "dropping names like Kruger." You're doing the exact same thing as he/they is/are with your "where the fuck do you think constructivism comes from?" You're being just as pretentious as dudes you're tryring to knock.
Sorry, it just bugged me.
- Engage0
So you're basically saying you didn't see the elephant in the room?
- Bluejam0
what was the point of the elephant?
horton
(Sep 17 06, 22:16)"On entering, visitors were presented with a flyer reading: 'There's an elephant in the room. There's a problem we never talk about. The fact is that life isn't getting any fairer. 1.7 billion people have no access to clean drinking water. 20 billion people live below the poverty line. Every day hundreds of people are made to physically be sick by morons at art shows telling them how bad the world is but never actually doing something about it. Anybody want a free glass of wine?"
- Teeuwen0
You think art and anti-capitolism started in the 60's? where the fuck do you think constructivism comes from?
Fuckin hell, I give up on these myspace-haircut-wear ing knobs.
fortified
(Sep 17 06, 20:56)hahaha
- pascii0
subversive
- Teeuwen0
hahaha had never seen this one before..
- Teeuwen0
i checked
http://webwhois.nic.uk/cgi-bin/w…
and then found:
http://www.google.com/search?cli…and then:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban…doh!
- nocomply0
I went. I thought it was pretty cool. Since I don't live in the UK I've never been able to see his work first hand before. Sure the fine art vigilante and the hipsters were there, but the whole thing had a kind of "fuck art" vibe to it which was cool. Irony at its finest I know. I don't like to talk about or debate art, so I kind of just take everything for what it is and I liked it.
I have like 50 pics I'll put on flickr soon...if anyone really still cares.
- Teeuwen0
that robert banks image search brought me to this site
- robotron3k0
looks as if the ladd is giving his work away as well... only 60,000 quid for some of his pieces... oh I get it, it's about the Bank, See.