Banksy Does New York

Banksy Does New York
Film poster
Directed byChris Moukarbel
Release date
  • October 11, 2014 (2014-10-11) (Hamptons)[1]

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.[2][3][4]

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.[5]

  1. ^ "HIFF 2014 Program".
  2. ^ Murray, Noel (17 November 2014). "The HBO documentary Banksy Does New York asks, "Who owns art?"". Tv.avclub.com. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  3. ^ "'Banksy Does New York' and throws shade on the art world in the process - The Japan Times". Japantimes.co.jp. 23 March 2016. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  4. ^ "Banksy Does New York". Rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  5. ^ Wyatt, Daisy (November 2013). "Banksy Nazi painting sells for more than $600,000 at charity auction". The Independent. Independent Digital News & Media Ltd. Retrieved 17 July 2020.