“The Simpsons” has a long respected history of celebrity guest-spots, having turned everyone from Elizabeth Taylor to Julian Assange into yellow-skinone where Homer becomes a celebrated outsider artist after building a shoddy barbecue pit in his backyard) featured Jasper Johns as himself.
On March 4th, Shepard Fairey and fellow street artists Ron English, Kenny Scharf, and Robbie Conal will be ensconced in the “Simpsons” guest star pantheon when they appear “Exit Though The Kwik-E-Mart.” Riffing on Banksey’s 2010 documentary, “Exit through the Gift Shop,” the episode will satirize the mainstream cooption of street art and urban gentrification. It will also probably be hillarious.
Fairey, a self-described “Simpsons” fan, has helpfully provided a synopsis of the episode on his website:
“In order to get back at his dad, Bart goes undercover as a graffiti street artist and plasters Homer’s unflattering image all over Springfield.
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