Exit Through The Gift Shop

Imagine that you are a struggling artist-or worse yet, a struggling street artist.  Not only is your art generally not worth much, but it is a crime to make it and someone doing Community Service will be along shorty to cover it up.  But all is not that bad, a handful of street artists are being taken seriously, chief among them a man known as Banksy. Exit Through The Gift Shop is the story of a handful of graffiti artists who have taken the art of defacing private and public property to a new level.  Not content with plain old…

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Cadillac Ranch

About eight miles west of Amarillo, clearly visible from I-40, is a sculpture composed of ten old Cadillacs half buried in the middle of a plowed field.  This is art in the loosest possible sense of the word.  Uncontrolled graffiti is more like it. I’m a bit too old fashioned for The Cadillac Ranch, I prefer my art to look much as it looked when the artist created it.  I have never been a big fan of graffiti-well, except for Banksy.  I remember visiting the Bridges of Madison County not long after the movie had been released.  The Bridges had…

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