POPaganda: The Art and Crimes of Ron English

Ron English has pulled off some impressive stunts over the years. His best-known involved illegally plastering over billboards in cities across the country with subversive messages. One, posted in Cleveland last March, featured a picture of a child in a pith helmet and read, “PLAYDATE IRAN.” Another, funnier offering included a black and white rendering of Charles Manson and urged, “THINK DIFFERENT.” Beyond that, English has painted Marilyn Monroe with matching Mickey Mouse boobs, kids dressed as clowns drinking beer and smoking cigarettes, and also all those eerie McDonald’s-related paintings featured in the movie Supersize Me. Now English himself is the featured subject of POPaganda: The Art and Crimes of Ron English, a documentary that aims to describe the man behind the antics, a self-described “modern day Robin Hood of Madison Avenue.” 10 Church St. S.E., Minneapolis; 612-627-4430; www.bellmuseum.org