Exit Through the Gift Shop

We pretended to be Tulsa socialites last night and attended the independent cinema to view Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop.

Sarah was part of the uninitiated crowd that had never seen any of Banksy's work. I thought it was pretty clever the way this documentary was filmed. It really focused on the rise in popularity of street art and the hypocrisy of many who jump in trying to make a quick buck.

Personally, I think Banksy and Shepard Fairey have tricked the masses with this documentary. Surely a frenchman can't simply come up with ideas and pay an army of real artists to produce his derivative ideas, then get rich selling them off. I don't want to live in that world.

Either way, the Circle Cinema had an art competition behind the theater. It was hot and humid, but the art prevailed. The winner in the youth competition featured the line "Art is not a competition." Fortunately for him, the lone judge was wearing a Sex Pistols t-shirt.