Latest on the Banksy Guard and Koons Dog Removal

'Doug Christmas, the gallerist who removed Banky’s “Guard On Duty” in Los Angeles by cutting it out of the wall, claims he had good information that it was in imminent danger of being stolen. So, he decided to steal it instead, . Full article here . The one on Ebay is definitely a fraud. The plot thickens, or just gets gooey and annoying and won't go down the sink.

LA Times review of Exit and comparison to F For Fake

Interesting review from the LA Times here , the most interesting part being right at the end comparing it in part to Orson Welles last film 'F for Fake', here are some snippets from Wikipedia discussing this film to get you thinking:

'struggling artist who turned to forgery out of desperation, only to see the greater share of the profits from his deceptions go to doubly unscrupulous art dealers.'

'There has not always been agreement among commentators over just how that production unfolded, but the now-accepted story[1] is that the director François Reichenbach shot a documentary about de Hory and Irving before giving his footage to Welles, who then shot additional footage with Reichenbach as his cinematographer.'

'it became known that Irving had perpetrated a hoax of his own, namely a fabricated "authorized biography" of Howard Hughes (the hoax was later fictionalized in The Hoax). This discovery prompted the shooting of still more footage'

'F for Fake is often judged as a masterpiece of the art of editing'

full entry here

okay so I'm not saying Banksy saw this film and said i know what i'll do, but it does give food for thought? With the recent removal of a street piece by 'unscrupulous art dealers', additional footage added to real footage (come on you know everything you were watching wasn't quite as it seemed?), clever editing, hoaxing a biography of 'someone', it makes you wonder, just a little

Blek Le Rat & Above at White Walls SF 1/5 - 5/6

I'd thought Blek had retired? (or possibly hoped he had) Anyway some new work on the way for San Fran, alot you'll recognise and have seen before, but there are a couple of pieces that look interesting, particularly the Mona Lisa piece which can been seen in the studio visit here

Banksy Guard and Koons Dog now on Ebay!

So you buy this, you're buying an unauthenticated and never to be authenticated piece, that was never meant for someone's home (possibly) can you live with that???

http://cgi.ebay.com/BANKSY-GUARD-ON-DUTY-STENCIL-KOONS-DOG_W0QQitemZ250615685539QQcmdZViewItemQQptZArt_Paintings?hash=item3a59dbe1a3

The picture is odd...

the scale and the placement looks wrong, photoshopped picture? very strange

New Pieces at the Laz Shop

Some prints by Emory Douglas strong messages, but not my thing.

A sexy Mode2 print that's very much my thing

And some Paul Insect 'originals' from 2008, odd to see these appear now

http://www.shopatlazarides.com/

San Francisco Banksy Film Opening

Info and pic's of this opening here, very low key in comparison to the other recent Stateside openings. Oh after the show, phot op outside the theatre with a guy in a wrestling mask - there is no way this is Banksy

Latest in LA Banksy Removal

It appears the person filming the 'removal' was also at the premier. The conspiracy theories grow, mainly in my head,