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Wild Fantasies – A decade of Don’t Panic Posters

September 25, 2010 butterfly 4 Comments

Starting in London in 2000, Don’t Panic packs became increasingly popular not only for their arts and culture information, but also for their highly collectable Posters.
Distributed in many cities hot spots, it provided a launch pad for emerging and established artists like Andrew Rae, Banksy, Pentagram, Lucy McLauchlan, Eine, Elliot Thoburn, Paul Insect, David Shrigley, Jon Burgerman, Stanley Donwood and many more.

Curated by Leon Martyn, ‘Wild Fantasies’ features an exhibition of 50 of the most important Posters distributed through the Don’t Panic packs.

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London, Shows

Scream Gallery : Modern Master Works

July 15, 2010 butterfly Leave a comment

Directed by Tyrone Wood, son of The Rolling Stones Ronnie, SCREAM gallery is running a group show entitled “Modern Master Works” until September 4th.

Tyrone Wood between a Warhol Marilyn and a Banksy Kate Moss

Featuring iconic works by leading modern and contemporary artists, all under one roof, the list of showcased artists is impressive: from Lichenstein, Warhol , Robert Indiana, Pablo Picasso, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec to works from Jake and Dinos Chapman, Simon Patterson, Chris Ofili , David Bailey as well as Banksy .

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London, Shows

Summer Party with Kevin Spacey and Paul McCartney

June 30, 2010 butterfly Leave a comment

Old Vic 192

Stars from the musical and art worlds unite to save London’s Old Vic Theatre.

Actor Kevin Spacey is hosting a fund-raising gala concert and art auction in aid of Old Vic Theatre, a 192-year old building that suffered damage from bombings during WWII. Proceeds will help repair the Old Vic leaky roof.

Numerous artists have donated special artworks for this one of a kind auction, at an exclusive preview at the Haunch of Unison:

Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey next to a unique Banksy on wood

Damien Hirst

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Films, London

Banksy – Exit through the Gift Shop Film

February 28, 2010 butterfly Leave a comment

Ahead of Banksy’s UK nationwide film release on 5th March 2010, a pop-up cinema is showing ‘Exit Through the Gift Shop’.

Lambeth Palace is situated in Leake Street, under Waterloo train station and features infamous Banksy installations and animatronics. The same tunnel hosted the Banksy Cans Festival in 2008.

Exit through the Gift Shop is a documentary of how an eccentric French shopkeeper, Thierry Guetta, turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner with spectacular results. The film contains exclusive footage of Banksy, Shephard Fairey, Invader and many of the world’s most infamous graffiti artists at work, on walls and in interview.

Banksy himself describes the film as “the story of how one man set out to film the un-filmable. And failed”.

Thierry Guetta aka MBW at the Cans Festival 2008

All pictures by Butterfly

www.banksy.co.uk/cinema.html

www.banksyfilm.com

London, Street

Banksy Stencil Invasion

September 25, 2009 butterfly Leave a comment

Banksy’s website has been finally updated with a lot of outdoor pictures, ending long discussions about whether or not he was behind ingenius masterpieces.

Earlier in March 2009