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Started by garbon, October 24, 2013, 07:50:01 AM

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garbon

http://news.yahoo.com/banksy-thwarted-york-police-182939501.html

QuoteBritish street art superstar Banksy said police on Wednesday prevented him from creating a new piece of art in New York as promised on each day of the month.

"Today's art has been cancelled due to police activity," he wrote in a blank window on his website www.banksyny.com under the heading October 23.

The same message was carried on his instagram account, which has more than 255,000 followers and which like his website each day announces his pop-up exhibition.

Banksy provided no other details. And a spokesman for New York Police Department had no immediate comment.

Art work by the England-based graffiti maestro, who has never been formally identified, can sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars in upmarket galleries.

His month-long residency in New York has attracted a cult following, but has enraged the owners of defaced property and been criticised by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

"Graffiti does ruin people's property, and it's a sign of decay and loss of control," Bloomberg said last week. "Some places are for arts, and some aren't."

In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the owner of a building -- on which Banksy painted two geishas on a bridge -- was tagged and put guards on watch.

The artist's take on the twin towers of the World Trade Center brought down on September 11, 2001 -- painted in Brooklyn Heights, was removed after less than a week.

Banksy's stencilled designs, known for their irreverent humor and political activism, have propelled him from a graffiti rebel to reluctant star.

Called "Better Out Than In" his New York show includes traditional stencil designs with installation art.

One of the highlights is a slaughterhouse delivery truck stuffed with soft toy animals, which appeared first in Manhattan's uber trendy meatpacking district.

Called "The Sirens of the Lambs," the cuddly toy pigs, sheep, chickens and cows are operated by puppeteers and also tours the city everyday until the end of October.
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Good. Too bad they didn't jam a plunger up his ass.
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CountDeMoney

Yay for the NYPD.  If only they shot him.

merithyn

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I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
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garbon

"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Josquius

Kind of a dissapointing/relieving story. I guessed before clicking on the thread that they had caught him in the act.
Would be interesting were that to happen, would lead to his identy being revealed then interesting times would lie ahead.
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merithyn

Quote from: garbon on October 24, 2013, 08:30:40 AM
Quote from: merithyn on October 24, 2013, 08:20:27 AM
I :wub: Banksy's art.

I have to say that I don't get the appeal...at all. -_-

There's a haunting beauty to it. Like this one, for example:

Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

garbon

Quote from: Tyr on October 24, 2013, 08:36:38 AM
Would be interesting were that to happen, would lead to his identy being revealed then interesting times would lie ahead.

Interesting times such as?
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Josquius

Quote from: garbon on October 24, 2013, 08:42:15 AM
Quote from: Tyr on October 24, 2013, 08:36:38 AM
Would be interesting were that to happen, would lead to his identy being revealed then interesting times would lie ahead.

Interesting times such as?
The media poking into his private life, lots being revealed about him. It would be interesting to see how he would react in such a situation, would he fight against the tide or adapt to it.
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Gups

#10
I think his work is great. Dunno how anyone with a sense of humour woudl find it objectionable. And it raises property prices!




CountDeMoney

Quote from: merithyn on October 24, 2013, 08:41:57 AM
There's a haunting beauty to it. Like this one, for example:

NYPD shoulda shot their little asses, too.  Fucking taggers.

garbon

Quote from: Gups on October 24, 2013, 08:46:41 AM
I think his work is great. Dunno how anyone with a sense of humour woudl find it objectionable. And it raises property prices!

Sure if he wants to put his pieces on canvas or mixed media have at it...or even if he wanted to work through intermediaries to get permission to "tag" buildings" I'm not sure that he has much going for him over other "great" graffiti artists other than the allure of his unknown personality and that a lot of people became exposed to this alternative artist by watching that documentary.

I see no reason to be excited to see this in public:


And apparently New York didn't either.
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I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

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Quote from: garbon on October 24, 2013, 07:50:01 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/banksy-thwarted-york-police-182939501.html

"Graffiti does ruin people's property, and it's a sign of decay and loss of control," Bloomberg said last week. "Some places are for arts, and some aren't."

In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the owner of a building -- on which Banksy painted two geishas on a bridge -- was tagged and put guards on watch.

The artist's take on the twin towers of the World Trade Center brought down on September 11, 2001 -- painted in Brooklyn Heights, was removed after less than a week.
If his art is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars per piece why would you remove it?  :huh:

Regardless of your own personal opinion of its artistic quality that just seems like a bad financial decision.
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derspiess

I hate graffiti, but what little work I have seen of Bansky's, it's pretty good.
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