If you missed Banksy’s Exit Through The Gift Shop documentary film while it was in the theater, you will be able to see it on DVD when it comes out next Monday, September 6th. Originally started as an unofficial documentary on Banksy by bumbling Parisian videographer Thierry Guetta, the famed street artist turned the camera […]

Shepard Fairey’s Mr. Spray character, created in 2004, is being manifested in real life in vinyl figure form. Seeing as he’s a giant spray can, and his entire raison d’être is to spray his essence onto walls and landscapes indiscriminately, you know he’s not coming solo. Hence, Mr. Spray’s coming strapped with a mini OBEY  […]

There’s a great piece in this week’s LA Weekly interviewing Banksy regarding his role in his new documentary film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, and his true relationship with the film’s subject/collaborator Mr. Brainwash (aka Thierry Guetta). While many people think it is yet another prank in the long history of Banksy’s twisted imagination, he […]

In reaction to the passing of Prop 8 and the subsequent upheaval resulting in communities and groups petitioning and protesting and the court case Perry v Schwarzenneger, a case challenging the constitutional validity of Prop 8 (the California Marriage Protection Act), Manifest Equality gathers a talented group of artists together for a great show and […]

It seems inevitable. Instead of concentrating on the ‘Right Here-Right Now’ creative landscape, the art matrix get swallowed by Board votes, a pedestrian public and the antiquation of large institutions in general. Although MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) boasts the largest Post-World War II collection of modern art, the “C” still stands for Contemporary and […]