Banksy Does New York Explained

Banksy Does New York
Director:	Chris Moukarbel
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Banksy Does New York is a 2014 HBO documentary film directed by Chris Moukarbel about Banksy's Better Out Than In project. The documentary covers Banksy's one month residency in October 2013, in which the artist presented a new work of art daily and announced the locations via his Instagram account each morning.^[1] ^[2] ^[3]

Among the artworks filmed and described are a cement sphinx, a truck of moving puppet farm animals driven and parked in front of various New York butchers and meat markets, paintings which were sold for a day in Central Park for $60 each which were then estimated to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the Banality of the Banality of Evil, which portrays a man dressed as a Nazi peacefully sitting and looking out over an already existing landscape from—and then donated back to—a charitable thrift shop.^[4]

Notes and References

Web site: The HBO documentary Banksy Does New York asks, "Who owns art?". Noel. Murray. Tv.avclub.com. 17 November 2014. 26 December 2017. 17 September 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210917100639/https://www.avclub.com/the-hbo-documentary-banksy-does-new-york-asks-who-own-1798181951. live.
Web site: 'Banksy Does New York' and throws shade on the art world in the process - The Japan Times. Japantimes.co.jp. 23 March 2016. 26 December 2017. 26 December 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171226132705/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/03/23/films/film-reviews/banksy-new-york-throws-shade-art-world-process/#.WkHbEyOZPfY. live.
Web site: Banksy Does New York. Rottentomatoes.com. 26 December 2017.
Web site: Wyatt . Daisy . Banksy Nazi painting sells for more than $600,000 at charity auction . The Independent . November 2013 . Independent Digital News & Media Ltd . 17 July 2020.