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‘Moment of truth: Banksy is selling, but are you buying?’ S.T. Vanairsdale, www.movieline.com, 15 April 2010
‘Is Banksy’s Mr Brainwash an Art-World Borat?’ Logan Hill, New York magazine, 14 April 2010
‘Riddle? Yes. Enigma? Sure. Documentary?’ Melena Ryzik, New York Times, 13 April 2010
‘Here’s why the Banksy movie is a Banksy prank’. Alissa Walker, www.fastcompany.com, April 2010
‘Exit Through the Gift Shop: The enigma known as Banksy’. Steven Zeitchik, Los Angeles Times, 30 March 2010
‘The latest Banksy Hoax? A real artist’. Tom Shone, The Times, 27 February 2010
‘Brainwashed’. Andrew Russeth, www.artinfo.com, 16 February 2010
‘Shepard Fairey speaks at Bonhams and Butterfields Panel’, 5 November 2008. On YouTube. There are different segments of this discussion; Fairey speaking about Mr Brainwash comes halfway through a video which is 10 min, 10 sec. long.
‘Mr Brainwash Bombs LA’. Shelley Leopold, LA Weekly, 11 June 2008
‘Featured Artist – Mr Brainwash’. www.neublack.com, June 2008. Short interview with Mr Brainwash, pictures of the show followed by a long interesting discussion on his art.
The news of Glen Friedman’s case against Mr Brainwash was first broken on www.hollywoodreporter.com. Sean Bonner at www.boingboing.net supported Friedman, while RJ – ‘Mr. Brainwash is getting his ass sued’ – came to the defence of Mr Brainwash at http://blog.vandalog.com. The whole question of appropriation or ‘referencing’ of images was covered at www.theartnewspaper.com in March 2011. Also: ‘Obey plagiarist Shepard Fairey’. Mark Vallen, http://www.art-for-a-change.com, December 2007.
Derek Walborn at www.derekwalborn.com is the sculptor employed by Mr Brainwash who answered my questions about what he did and did not produce for Mr Brainwash.
Incursions
‘A Wooster Exclusive: Banksy Hits New York’s Most Famous Museums’. www.wooster.collective.com, 23 March 2005
‘Graffiti artist cuts out middle man to get his work hanging in the Tate’. Steven Morris, www.guardian.co.uk, 18 October 2003
‘Street artist Banksy dons disguise to install his picture on gallery wall’. Arifa Akbar, www.independent.co.uk, 18 October 2003
Bristol show
‘Banksy charged Bristol Museum £1, contract papers reveal’. www.culture24.org.uk, 14 August 2009
‘Banksy vs Bristol Museum’, review. http://martinworster.wordpress.com, 2 July 2009
‘Banksy takes over the Bristol City Museum’. Waldemar Januszczak, Sunday Times, 21 June 2009
‘Banksy: The graffitist goes straight’. Tim Adams, Observer, 14 June 2009
‘Banksy comes home for Bristol show’. www.thisisbristol.co.uk, 12 June 2009
Banksy Souvenir Supplement, Evening Post, 2 September 2009
Bristol City Council graffiti policy can be found at: http://www.bristol.gov.uk
Robbo
Graffiti Wars, Channel 4, 14 August 2011 (see also ‘Banksy accuses Channel 4 film of distortion over “war of the walls”’. Dalya Alberge, www.guardian.co.uk, 3 September 2011)
‘The gloves are off: Graffiti legend King Robbo has resurfaced to settle a score with Banksy’. Matilda Battersby, www.independent.co.uk, 21 April 2011
‘Banksy graffiti feud given a fresh coat’. Alexandra Topping, www.guardian.co.uk, 23 April 2010
‘A game of tag breaks out between London’s graffiti elite’. Gabriele Steinhauser, http://online.wsj, 3 March 2010
‘Banksy’s rival King Robbo sprays the final word in street art feud’. Fiona Hamilton, www.timesonline.co.uk, 30 December 2009
Reviews/critics
‘The death of Banksy’. http://blog.vandalog.com/2011/01/the-death-of-banksy/. An interesting discussion on whether, given Banksy’s anonymity, his art could continue without him.
‘The strengths and limitations of Banksy’s “guerrilla” art’. Paul Mitchell, www.wsws.org, 10 September 2009
‘Should Banksy be nominated for the Turner prize?’ Jonathan Jones, www.guardian.co.uk, 15 April 2009
‘Banksy’s ideas have the value of a joke’. Matthew Collings, The Times, 28 January 2008
‘Banksy’s Progress’. Waldemar Januszczak, Sunday Times, http://timesonline.co.uk, 11 March 2007
‘Best of British’. Jonathan Jones, www.guardian.co.uk, 5 July 2007
‘Why all the fuss over Banksy?’ Jonathan Jones, www.guardian.co.uk, March 2007
‘When graffiti crosses that fine line’. Charles Schultz, http://whitehotmagazine.com, March 2007
‘The Banksy Effect’. Marc Schiller, www.woostercollective.com, 13 February 2007
Followed by ‘Marc Schiller on Commerce’, www.papermag.com, 10 October 2008
‘Supposing . . . subversive genius Banksy is actually rubbish’. Charlie Brooker, www.guardian.co.uk, 22 September 2006
‘Art: Who’s afraid of the big bad guy? Is art vandal Banksy mellowing with age?’ Waldemar Januszczak, http://times online.co.uk, 23 October 2005
MOCA
‘Radical graffiti chic’. Heather MacDonald, http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_2_vandalism.html, Spring 2011
‘A risk-taker’s debut’. Guy Trebay, www.nytimes.com, 22 April 2011
‘Art in the Streets’, review. Mat Gleason, http://coagula.com, 15 April 2011
‘Street art at Moca’. Shelley Leopold, http://www.laweekly.com, 7 April 2011
‘Tag He’s It’. Steffie Nelson, www.nytimes.com, 11 March 2011
Walls
‘555 Gallery gets OK to display Banksy mural’. Mark Stryker, http://www.freep.com/article/20110911/ENT05/109110402/, 10 September 2011
‘Galleries defend controversial Banksy show’. Rachel Corbett, http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/corbett/keszler-gallery-on-banksy-controversy-9-1-11.asp, 31 August 2011
‘Banksy fans decry removal of street art works from Palestine’. http://www.artnet.com/ magazineus/news/artnetnews/banksy-palestinian-works.asp, 30 August 2011
A film about Banksy walls being transported from Bethlehem to New York via London was put up by the Keszler Gallery on YouTube in August 2011. See: Banksy Keszler.mov.
The website carrying an impassioned debate about whether the Detroit Banksy should have been ‘saved’ is http://www.detroitfunk.com
‘Did Banksy’s latest work bring misery to a homeless man?’ Guy Adams, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/, 19 March 2011
‘Remove art from its architectural context, and what’s left?’ Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times architecture critic, http://articles.latimes.com, 12 March 2011
‘Graffiti artist Banksy leaves mark on Detroit and ignites firestorm’. Mark Stryker, http://www.freep.com, 15 May 2010
‘Banksy’s Wall’. Channel 4 News, February 2010. A nine-minute film about the wall in Croydon. This can be found on various different sites. I used http://www.artisan-pictures.co.uk/and then clicked on films
‘Entire Banksy mural removed by Croydon-Beddington wall’s owner’. Leanne Fender, http://www.suttonguardian.co.uk, 11 November 2009
‘Banksy’s art found on farm’s barn wall’. Charles Heslett, http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk, 3 October 2008
‘Vermin on the loose’. Simon Todd, www.artnet.com, September 2008
‘All the way to the Banksy. A piece of art made by Banksy for the Observer Music Monthly could fetch a tidy sum this week’. Caspar Llewellyn Smith, Observer, 22 June 2008
‘Victim of the Great Banksy Robbery’. Rashid Razaq and Esther Walker, http://www.thisislondon.co.uk, 8 March 2007
Art general
‘The problem with authenticating Warhol’. Charlotte Burns, www.theartnewspaper.com, 7 November 2011
‘Off the Wall. Graffiti has made the transition from vandalism to fashionable art, but how did the street become domesticated’. Victoria Maw, Financial Times, 15 July 2011
‘I’m proud to be a Twombly cultist’. John Waters, The Times, 9 July 2011
‘Graffiti of the
Gods. Amid the squiggles Cy Twombly, who died this week, created profound art’. Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times, 6 July 2011
‘Beyond Graffiti. A new generation is making street art that is conceptual, abstract, and even sculptural in nature’. Carolina A. Miranda, www.artnews.com, January 2011
‘The Thing is Dave, Giving is an art. But not that sort of art’. Catherine Bennett, Observer, 25 July 2010
‘It was a stunning work of art – so why is the Wall hanging in a Las Vegas loo?’ Germaine Greer, Guardian, 15 February 2010
‘Top of the Pops. Did Andy Warhol change everything?’ The New Yorker, 11 January 2010
‘My Week: Richard Wright. The better the picture, the more I long to destroy it’. Sunday Times, 13 December 2009
‘All that glitters is not sold in this glimmering world’. Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times, 8 December 2009
‘The medium is the market’. Hal Foster, London Review of Books, 9 October 2008 ‘How the Tate got streetwise’. Alice Fisher, Observer, 11 May 2008
Art and fashion
‘Richard Hambleton pop-up show @ The Dairy, London’. Patrick Nguyen, Arrested Motion, 6 December 2010
‘Terms of Engagement’. Lucia van der Post, Financial Times, 27 February 2010
Voina
‘How Banksy bailed out Russian graffiti artists Voina’. Lucy Ash, www.bbc.co.uk, 5 March 2011
‘Banksy supports Voina, controversial Russian art group’. Lucy Ash, www.bbc.co.uk, 13 December 2010
‘Banksy pledges cash to Russian art “hooligans”’. Tom Parfitt, Guardian, 13 December 2010
A website in support of Voina: http://en.free-voina.org/
Israel
‘Art attack’. Peter Kennard, http://wwwnewstatesman.com, 17 July 2008
‘Santa’s Ghetto Bethlehem’. www.tristanmanco.com, 1 January 2008
Prices
For prices I used http://artnet.com and sometimes http://www.arcadja.com. Late in the day I also learned of another site: http://expressobeans.com/, a ‘not-for-profit community resource’ tracking prices.
‘When the bottom fell out of the market’. Charlotte Higgins, www.guardian.co.uk, 15 October 2009
‘Quick Fix. Laughing all the way to the Banksy’. www.economist.com, 10 November 2008
Fake Banksys and dodgy Banksys
‘When can we stop wondering what Banksy looks like?’ Adam Clark Estes, www.salon.com, 4 March 2011
‘Suspended sentence for two men who sold fake Banksy prints’. http://cms.met.police.uk, 1 July 2010
‘Croydon Banksy forger avoids jail term for selling fake prints’. Mike Didymus, www.croydonguardian.co.uk, 1 July 2010
‘Revealed: the ebay Banksy print fraud’. William Oliver and Cristina Ruiz, www.theartnewspaper.com, 25 September 2007
Knitting and crocheting
‘Wool Britannia’. Maddy Costa, Guardian, 11 October 2010
Interview with street crochet artist Olek, showing just how dedicated she is to her work. http://www.streetartnews.net/2010_12_01_archive.html, 31 December 2010. Olek’s website is: http://agataolek.com/home.html
Galleries
David Samuel, my guide around Leake Street, has his own online gallery: www.rarekindlondon.com, which has now developed into an illustration agency.
My thanks to Matthew Rich, the dedicated printer at Jealous Gallery in Crouch End who very patiently spent an afternoon showing me how screen printing worked: www.jealousgallery.com
Other galleries that were helpful in one
way or another:
www.lazinc.com
www.andipa.com
www.blackratprojects.com
www.pureevil.eu
http://www.weaponofchoicegallery.co.uk/
www.nellyduff.com
www.bankrobberlondon.com
www.taoigallery.com
http://www.visitmima.com/
Miscellany
The Shepard Fairey equivalent of the Banksy forum is http://www.thegiant.org/. Another magazine that covers street art and graffiti among other things is http://www.juxtapoz.com/.
Evan Schiff, who waited all night for his Banksy print, is at http://artonanisland.blogspot.com
‘Fashion’s most wanted – Mrs Jones interview’. Christina Lindsay, http://fashionsmostwanted.blogspot.com/2010/09/fashionss-most-wanted-mrs-jones.html, 3 September 2010
‘Want to be famous? Then better stay anonymous’. Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph, 20 August 2010
The interview where Blek le Rat was slightly more critical of Banksy than usual was on a San Francisco arts website: http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?id=1056&option=com_content &task=view
Interview with Inkie. Roly Henry, www.kmag.co.uk, 7 July 2010
‘On the Foundry: Not all art is meant to last for ever’. Nosheen Iqbal, www.guardian.co.uk, 12 February 2010
‘Banksy and a tunnel vision’. Louise Jury, thisislondon.co.uk, 2 May 2008
For a short video of Banksy’s printer in America getting a little frustrated about Banksy’s concept of keeping a deadline, see: http://printingbanksy.com/
For a slide show of art at the Carlton Arms hotel go to: http://travel.guardian.co.uk/flash/page/0,,2258955,00.html
An interview with John Ogren, general manager of the Carlton Arms Hotel, can be found at www.nypress.com
‘Tag we’re it’. Geoff Edgers, Boston Globe, 15 May 2010, for the reaction of Boston to Banksy and Shepard Fairey’s remarks about Banksy using assistants
A site attempting to have a laugh at Banksy’s expense: http://notbanksy.co.uk
‘Spray it loud’, Dom Phillips, Venue magazine, May 1990, for the early days at Barton Hill
The website of the sculptor who has worked for Banksy: http://www.charliebecker.net/site/category/news/
Late in the day I was recommended this site for the harder edge of graffiti: http://hurtyoubad.com/
The website of the firm employed by Banksy to paint four huge billboards in New York: http://colossalmedia.com/case-studies/ banksy
Figures for the impact of the Banksy exhibition on Bristol were provided by Destination Bristol at http://visitbristol.co.uk/site/destination-bristol
For a film of See No Evil in Bristol, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Mqeqg4guc
Bibliography
Books
Banksy. Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall. Banksy, 2001.
Banksy. Existencilism. Weapons of Mass Destruction, 2002.
Banksy. Cut It Out. Banksy, 2004.
Banksy, Wall and Piece. Century, 2005.
Blackshaw, Ric and Farrelly, Liz. Scrawl: Dirty Graphics and Strange Characters. Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1999.
Bloom, Paul. How Pleasure Works. The Bodley Head, 2010.
Braun, Felix. Children of the Can: 25 years of Bristol Graffiti. Tangent Books, 2008.
Bull, Martin. Banksy Locations and Tours. Shellshock Publishing: 3rd edition, 2008.
Bull, Martin. Banksy Locations (And a Tour), Vol. 2. Shellshock Publishing, 2010.
Cooper, Martha and Chalfant, Henry. Subway Art, 25th Anniversary Edition. Thames & Hudson, 2009.
Cresswell, Tim. In Place, Out of Place: Geography, Ideology and Transgression. University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
Debord, Guy. Society of the Spectacle. Editions Buchet-Chastel, 1967; English edition, Black & Red, 1970, reprinted 2010.
Forsyth, Freddie, ed.; Robson-Scott, Will, photographer. Crack & Shine. FFF London, 2009.
Huber, Joerg, Paris Graffiti. Thames & Hudson, 1986.
Lazarides, Steve. Outsiders: Art by People. Century, 2008.
Lazarides, Steve. Hell’s Half Acre. Lazarides, 2010.
Mailer, Norman; Naar, Jon, photographer. The Faith of Graffiti. It Books (HarperCollins), 1974; new edition, 2009.
Manco, Tristan. Stencil Graffiti. Thames & Hudson, 2002, reprinted 2006.
Manco, Tristan. Street Sketchbook. Thames & Hudson, 2007, reprinted 2009.
Marcus, Greil. Lipstick Traces: a Secret History of the T
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Nguyen, Patrick and Mackenzie, Stuart. Beyond the Street: The 100 Leading Figures in Urban Art. Gestalten, 2010.
Parry, William. Against the Wall: the Art of Resistance in Palestine. Pluto Press, 2010.
Scherman, Tony and Dalton, David. POP: the Genius of Andy Warhol. HarperCollins, 2009.
Snyder, Gregory J. Graffiti Lives. New York University Press, 2009.
Swoon. Swoon (Graffiti artist). Abrams, 2010.
Thompson, Don. The $12 Million Stuffed Shark. Aurum Press, 2008.
Walde, Claudia. Street Fonts. Thames & Hudson, 2011.
Walsh, Michael. Graffito. North Atlantic Press, 1996.
Wolfe, Tom. The Painted Word. Picador, 2008.
Wright, Steve. Banksy’s Bristol Home Sweet Home: the Unofficial Guide. Tangent Books, 2009.
Periodicals and essays
Henry, Rolland. ‘Eine’. Very Nearly Almost magazine, issue 13, 2010.
Braun, Felix. ‘Jody: Dark Space’. Weapon of Choice magazine, issue 5, Spring 2010.
Cockroft, James. ‘Street Art and the Splasher: Assimilation and Resistance in Advanced Capitalism’. MA thesis, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, 2008.
Hartley, Liane. ‘Written in Stone: Territoriality, Identity and Vandalism in Cardiff’s Urban
Graffiti’. BA thesis, Oxford University, 1999.
Film
Banksy. Exit Through the Gift Shop. DVD, Paranoid Pictures, September 2010.
Index
3D ref1, ref2, ref3
10Foot ref1, ref2, ref3
accessible art ref1, ref2