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    What’s cooler? A show at the Met, or being immortalized on ‘The Simpsons’?

    What could possibly be more amazing than having your work hanging in a show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City?  Guerrilla artist Robbie Conal says being…

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    By Lisa Napoli • Mar 1, 2012 • 1 min read

    Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City? Guerrilla artist Robbie Conal says being immortalized alongside Bart Simpson easily trumps that honor.

    For decades Conal has mobilized volunteers in the dark of night to poster his political messages all over Los Angeles. You may recognize one of his most notable pieces, Simpsonized above. Ron English, Shepherd Fairey, and Kenny Scharf are Conal’s partners in crime in the episode that airs Sunday, titled “Exit Thru the Kwik-E-Mart.” (For you Banksy fans out there, that’s a riff on the documentary about that elusive street artist; how’s that for highbrow colliding with pop culture?!)

    What are the likes of Conal and friends doing in The Simpsons? Fox summarizes it this way:

    “Bart becomes a guerrilla graffiti artist. Meanwhile, a new store opens in Springfield that puts Apu and the Kwik-E-Mart out of business.”

    You don’t have to wait to see the episode to hear how it came out. Artist, Robbie Conal came into the studio and told me about it. Listen to our interview below.

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      Lisa Napoli

      KCRW arts reporter and producer

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