Episode 30: Artivism w/ Banksy + Who Is KAWS?

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Show Notes:

Banksy once sold signed original canvases from a stall outside Central Park for $60, and most people walked right past. Zahra follows a surprise Banksy sculpture in London down the rabbit hole of art as protest: Keith Haring chalking hundreds of drawings in New York subway stations during the AIDS crisis, and the painting that shredded itself at auction and came back worth almost 19 times more. What if it had shredded all the way? Then Sami walks into a tiny Paris gallery, puts a €4,000 bronze back on the shelf, and leaves with three promises. One of them is this deep dive into KAWS: a Disney background painter by day who drew X's over the eyes of bus-stop ads by night, then turned a dead Mickey Mouse into a toy that took him all the way to Dior.

Everything Mentioned:

People

Banksy

Keith Haring

Basquiat

Shepard Fairey / Obey

David Hockney

Invader

In The Whoop