Tag: Banksy

From Wooster Collective:

BiPed spotted this new piece yesterday in South London. While it hasn’t been confirmed, it has Banksy written all over it.

“The photo is quite misleading as the stencil is actually about 9ft high -you can just make out the top of a security fence on the left.”

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Lauren Collins has a piece in The New Yorker on Banksy:

If Bristol is, as James told me, “the graffiti capital of England,” then Banksy is its patron sinner. One morning last June, citizens were surprised to find a new mural downtown, on the side of a sexual-health clinic. It depicted a window, a perfect imitation of others nearby. From the sill, a naked man dangled by his fingertips. Inside, a fully dressed man scanned the horizon, next to a woman in dishabille. Directly facing the fake window are the offices of the Bristol city council, which, in a departure from policy, decided to put the mural’s fate to a public vote. Of about a thousand respondents, ninety-three per cent said the mural should stay. So it did. (In late April, however, London authorities whitewashed Banksy’s famous “Pulp Fiction” mural, which showed John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson holding bananas instead of handguns.)

“Banksy’s latest work of art is superb,” a man wrote to the local paper. “If the council wants to do something it should cut down that dreadful shrub which is obscuring the piece.” Gary Hopkins, a councilman, told me, “I think we undermined his street cred by making him mainstream.” Even James admitted to a grudging affection for Banksy. “I like the one where he’s got a picture of a stream and a bridge and he’s just dumped a shopping trolley in there,” she said, referring to a painting that Banksy did in the style of Monet. “I can relate to that, because we’ve got a problem with shopping trolleys.”

It’s Here.

Some new pieces from one of today’s greatest art prankster Banksy are up at Banksy’s website. Thanks to Juxtapoz for the notice.

I’ve been meaning to review Banksy’s book Wall and Piece for months now. The man is a genius. One of my favorite artists of all time.

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BBC:

Mr Boks said he tried to withdraw permits for the elephant on grounds of public safety last Friday, but found the three-day exhibition would be over before they took effect.

“Permits will not be issued for such frivolous abuse of animals in the future,” he said.

Tai’s owner, Kari Johnson, denied that the 38-year-old Indian elephant had suffered as a result of the paint job.

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Videos

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Banksy.

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From Wooster Collective:

Banksy and and Pickaxe, Soho Square, London, Today.

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From the Guardian, via Wooster Collective:

What is disappointing about the authority’s attitude is that Australia is probably still the only country in the world to have elevated a graffiti writer to the status of national public hero. Arthur Stace was an alcoholic from the slums of Sydney who found God while listening to a Baptist preacher in a hostel in the 1940s and took to writing the word “eternity” on the ground in chalk. He rendered it in meticulous copperplate script more than half a million times across Sydney over the next three decades, becoming an urban legend before his death in 1967 at the age of 83. He has since been honoured by a plaque, a range of council-approved merchandise and was the centrepiece of celebrations when the word “eternity” in his trademark hand was lit up in 100ft-high letters on Sydney harbour bridge to mark the new millennium.
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