From April through this past Monday, August 8, the Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art proffered "Art In the Streets", an exhibition about, yes, street art (not to necessarily be confused with and/or mistaken for graffiti). Banksy was a main attraction, and other artists featured included Shepard Fairey and Space Invader. The exhibit garnered the most traffic (201,352 visitors) of any of the museum's exhibits; the previous record was held by the Warhol exhibit (in 2002), proving that it's an era of a fresh 15 minutes in pop art. Monday attendances to the exhibit were free for anyone, sponsored by none other than Banksy himself, in the spirit that street art should not be commoditized; it is for the people (and, this blog dares, by the people). All in favor of an extra 15 for Banksy: We*!
*Blogs are commonly allocated a plural vote when it comes to matters of local import.
Life sometimes can be banked.
banked: verb
to tip or incline laterally
