Summary: The true story of one misguided art collector's attempts to save a painting by the world's most infamous street artist from destruction and the auction block. A rare look inside the secretive world of graffiti and street art.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SAVSummary: Examines Banksy's story, from his roots in a criminal subculture to his rise as the leader of an art revolution.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Incorporates user-generated content to follow a 31-day scavenger hunt that took place in October, 2013, on the streets of New York City at the hands of Banksy, a British street artist.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: For decades, mysterious messages in the form of colorful 'tiles' have appeared, pasted on the streets of major cities up and down the western hemisphere. Containing the same bizarre, unsettling message, which seems to concern resurrecting the world's dead, most people walk over them without a thought, until now. Justin Duerr, long obsessed with the tiles, has begun a quest to unearth both their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RESSummary: In his short career, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a phenomenon. He became notorious for his graffiti art under the moniker Samo in the late 1970s on the Lower East Side scene, sold his first painting to Deborah Harry for $200, and became best friends with Andy Warhol. Appreciated by both the art cognoscenti and the public, Basquiat was launched into international stardom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Video 2010