Banksy

[saL]

and some outdoor:

[saL]

POW just released new Jubilee print by Banksy:



the print is available as a FREE .jpg file, and you can download it HERE

also, new Jubilee prints by Paul Insect, Bast, 3D, Gold Peg were released HERE..

[sleepboy]

significance of 1468?

[dotdot]

mm scratches chin and thinks of mobstr.

[rizza79]

blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/2012/09/04/purported-new-banksy-mural-commemorates-failed-art-restorer-cecilia-gimenez/

any thoughts or other info about this?

[wenters]

same image as this...photoshop comp?

acidmidget.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/new-banksy-stencils.html

[saL]

yup, it is obvious photoshop..

Im actually having hard time believing how many people that are into art, and knowing few things about the scene, thought this was actually Banksy?!.. even C215 posted on his Facebook about it..

[Chop-Logik]

Perhaps those that spread it thought the photoshoppery was obvious, as anyone with a knowledge of the original Banksy would be, and it was just one of many joke takes on the Ecce Homo 'restoration'.

Then, further down the line, people with no direct knowledge of either see it propagated by higher-ups, and take it as fact.

Chaos ensues, as it does everywhere on the Internet.

[saL]

some cool animated Banksy classics:







(via ABVH)

[saL]

unseen photos of Banksy painting back in 2001?!



full story @ DailyMail

[fnord]

Banksy was a goalkeeper? I find it pretty unbelievable that they know that fact about him but not his name

[dotdot]

Sept 19, 2012 10:40:28 GMT -8 fnord said:

Banksy was a goalkeeper? I find it pretty unbelievable that they know that fact about him but not his name

clunk click..

[mose]

and an all-time classic turns up this season: www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2012/contemporary-art-day-auction-n08901/lot.449.lotnum.html

[simococo]

Oct 27, 2012 4:40:39 GMT -8 mose said:

and an all-time classic turns up this season: www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2012/contemporary-art-day-auction-n08901/lot.449.lotnum.html

That's magnificent

[fletch]

Oh Yes, marvellous

[sleepboy]

Some jacked Banksy's at the CONTEXT Art Miami fair. More pics here.

[saL]

I read couple of article about the background of this "show", and must say Im on the side that thinks these particular works DON'T belong in there!..

I think that as much as the ceiling of Sistine Chapel shouldn't be in Louvre, these works should stay and end where the guy who made them intended..

I understand sometimes people can't miss a chance to own a piece of street art history, so they take a Banksy sign, Invader tiles, etc, but to build a show around something you took, with artist and his PR being strongly against it, is a whole new level of lame..

also, I dont think Banksy's work is especially amazing when it comes to his technique and skills, so people should see it in person.. the biggest part of whats amazing about it, is where/when his pieces are placed.. and that is ruined the moment your concrete saw touched the surface on which the piece was done..

like this, these are cool looking stencil works on concrete, but when they were on a wall of a shop in Palestine, painted for the Santa's Ghetto show, they were a great piece by a great artist...

[xpc]

Street art belongs on the street end of.

[mose]

Dec 7, 2012 11:32:33 GMT -8 xpc said:

Street art belongs on the street end of.

If that's an 'all-or-nothing' statement, then I'll have to disagree with it.

IMO, you need a certain percentage captured from the wild in order to save for posterity, like a breeding program for an endangered species, but in this case breeding scholarship and continued interest in the genre. I'd think things would be far less interesting, for example, if all the Haring subway drawings had been left & lost, if we didn't have vintage NYC subway windows and doors, full of a generation of tags, in private collections and museums, if all we had left of KAWS bus-stop distortions were old photographs, etc., etc.

There is a preservation aspect that I appreciate.

[ziggy1]

I hate to admit it, but the pieces look much better than I thought they would. They did a good job when they removed them. That being said, I think they belong in a museum and not for public sale. Not really fair for the artist to not make any money from work that they put up for free to make a statement.

[saL]

according to ArrestedMotion Facebook, this image is purportedly on Banksy's Christmas card he sent out this year:



simple, clean, and punchy as a speed train..

[mose]

www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/contemporary-art-day-auction-l13021/lot.218.lotnum.html

[bmac]

www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4800007/Banksy-painting-hacked-off-wall-set-to-fetch-up-to-450k.html

[chrisvidal]

bankobber and keszler gallery at it again

[fnord]

incredibly lame