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ArtCurious Podcast

BONUS EPISODE: Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop LIVE Q&A at the Alamo Drafthouse

ArtCurious Podcast

ArtCurious

Arts, History, Visual Arts

4.8847 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

BANKSY! Love him or loathe him, he’s a contemporary art dynamo, an icon of street art success. He’s also an enigma, a playful mystery. Last week-- on April 30, 2019-- I was asked to participate in a special screening of the 2010 Banksy documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop at the Alamo Drafthouse in Raleigh, North Carolina. Exit was part of Alamo’s Film Club series, curated by Jackson Cooper, and after the film I sat down with Jackson to record a special conversation/Q&A about the film, Banksy, and the legacy of street art. Enjoy— and we’ll be back next week with an all-new episode of ArtCurious. Just a note that there are some spoilers in terms of the fact that we talk about the documentary in general, as well as Banksy himself and the other artist profiled in the doc, a man called Mr. Brainwash.   SPONSOR Myro (use promo code ARTCURIOUS at checkout for 50% off and to get started for just $5)   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hi, everyone. Jennifer here today with a bonus episode of Art Curious.

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Last week, April 30th, 2019, I was asked to participate in a special screening of the 2010 Banksy documentary exit through the gift shop at the Alamo Draft House here in Raleigh, North Carolina. This is part of their amazing film club series curated by Jackson Cooper, and after the film, Jackson and I recorded a conversation

0:54.5

and a Q&A about the movie, about Banksy, and about history and legacy and questions about

1:00.2

street art in general. And I'm excited to share this thoughtful conversation with you now. So just to

1:05.3

note that there are some spoilers in terms of the fact that we talk about the documentary in

1:09.0

general, as well as Banksy himself and the other artists profiled in the doc, a man called Mr. Brainwash. So just be aware of that.

1:16.2

But otherwise, please enjoy this bonus episode and we'll be back to you next week with a full

1:20.9

episode of Art Curious. Thanks for listening.

1:25.3

Okay, there you go. So Banksy has sort of always been the sort of, as we see in the

1:33.2

documentary, an elusive artist, mostly because there's not a lot of access to him. People

1:40.5

have trouble finding him. But I kind of want to go first to sort of talking about street art and what has sort of evolved as art, graffiti and stuff like that.

1:53.0

So I was wondering if you could talk about that a little bit.

1:56.0

Yeah, I mean, as far as I think about street art, I think of it as really being something that really emerged in the late 70s, early 80s, really coastal.

2:05.9

So I think about L.A., San Francisco, of course, New York.

2:09.6

And I think a lot of it may have grown out of the skateboarding culture, at least on the West Coast, which is where I'm originally from.

2:16.0

I know that was really connected.

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