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So I saw the show in LA this weekend. In addition to BrAngelina, Christina Aguilera and other celebs, there was an actual "elephant in the room". Little cards were passed out with a picture of a starving child which included that line followed by: "*20* billion people live below the poverty line." Every single piece seemed like it came from the mind of a precocious 11 year old who had just learned the meaning of the phrase 'ironic juxtaposition.' The Paris Hilton prank seemed utterly pointless to me (her project is much more interesting). A couple friends said that I was in an ivory tower - I reminded them that they were in an art gallery.

Do any ilxors really rate this guy? Is there any good that comes from his progressive political message, especially when that message is delivered in way that's at every turn, heavy handed, clunky and hollow?

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

i thought it was real cute that ZACK DE LA ROCHA was there and may have possibly stood directly in front of this painting

http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/9895/rocha2kx0.jpg

the whole thing could have been better if he passed around cards saying he was donating 100% of the proceeds to the heritage foundation or something. about as politically relevant as a junior high kid stenciling anarchy symbols on his trapper keeper, but then again BRAD PITT!!!!!!

― ath (ath), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

her project is much more interesting

I'm pondering the noun choice there.

(I have nothing to say about Banksy.)

And HI DERE IMFH.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

'It's not like they're going to be hanging in the Louvre....'

― ath (ath), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

They made him wash the paint off his elephant.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

I saw the show too and fully predicted the instant backlash from the event horizon of hipsterati there. I expect Banksy to go after Brad/Angelina/etc. in his next round of pranking.

On the whole, I liked it. It's like a good issue of Mad Magazine. However it didn't help having a mob of idiots hollering out "OOOOH... SATIRE!" every second.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

FWIW, the only celebrity I saw there was see Kate Flannery (Meredith from The Office).

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

I've only seen (in pix) his disneyland guantanamo prisoner stunt. I hadn't heard about him for a while.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

he just did that Paris Hilton prank with DangerMouse.

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

The proliferation of middlebrow grafiti is a curious phenomenon. See also "Swoon"

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

I guess that's a little unfair though.

Overall I suppose he's more good than bad, but I feel like his stylishness suggests an unwitting buying into the culture he's supposedly rejecting.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

He copped a fuckload of stick on the Paris Hilton thread. Mostly Noodle Vague stick, though, so at least it was funny.

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

don't we do this, like, weekly now

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

HI DERE NED -XX

However it didn't help having a mob of idiots hollering out "OOOOH... SATIRE!" every second.

Chris, that was probably me. Actually, I was saying that when I have a gallery show that I will throw feces at a fan to let people know that "the sh*t is hitting the fan." I will also ride into the gallery on a very high horse. Then I will ascend an actual ivory tower which I will invite Banksy to deface.

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

i know it's not THE most original idea, but a good budy of mine Steve Smith (http://www.drunkingham.com & http://receivergallery.com/shows/stevesmith.php) has been doing this painting crazy shit on top of thriftstore paintings for a long time and now that mr. famous banksy is doing it, my friend will be called a biter.

steves:
http://www.drunkingham.com/images/popup/01.jpg

i own this one
http://receivergallery.com/shows/images/stevesmith/steve-lg/21.jpg

http://www.drunkingham.com/images/popup/spr-03f.jpg

and banksy's:
http://www.fecalface.com/openings/banksy/banksy14.jpg
http://www.fecalface.com/openings/banksy/banksy17.jpg

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

> now that mr. famous banksy is doing it, my friend will be called a biter.

no, after the chapman brothers did it to those goya etchings, your friend will be called a biter 8)

am not sure banksy translates too well, either into american or from street grafitti to art gallery.

> Little cards were passed out with a picture of a starving child which included that line followed by: "*20* billion people live below the poverty line."

the full thing (from the guardian) is "There's an elephant in the room. There's a problem we never talk about. The fact is that life isn't getting any fairer. 1.7 billion people have no access to clean drinking water. 20 billion people live below the poverty line. Every day hundreds of people are made to physically be sick by morons at art shows telling them how bad the world is but never actually doing something about it. Anybody want a free glass of wine?" which is an entirely different thing.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 07:45 (nineteen years ago)

He copped a fuckload of stick on the Paris Hilton thread.

Which thread is this?

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 07:53 (nineteen years ago)

the lex meltdown one.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 07:57 (nineteen years ago)

I initially thought he might have done some crazy shit to the warehouse itself, so I was hopeful, but the L.A. thing was mostly just a gallery of pieces you can see on his website. Ocassionally worthwhile, but there was a lot of internet t-shirt store level stuff in there as well. And the elephant was for media attention purposes only.

― running in circles (running in circles), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 07:59 (nineteen years ago)

the lex meltdown one.

Link plz

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:11 (nineteen years ago)

abandon all faith...

PARIS HILTON - PARIS

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

Is there anything wrong with art that's well done and easy to understand?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:13 (nineteen years ago)

yes.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

art critics don't like it because that's them out of a job.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

how so?

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

Art Crit: "It's a statement on World Poverty"

Everyone: "Yeah, we know!"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

I like him okay enough from an aesthetic point of view but the discourse that surrounds him is so unbelievably wanky I find it offputting.

Anyway, the elephant in the room thing is LAME LAME LAME not only for the Do You See???? aspect but also because IN WHAT UNIVERSE IS "NO ONE TALKING ABOUT POVERTY?"

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

music critic: it's for dancing to

everyone: o rly?

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

(multi xpost) You call that a meltdown?

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

could be false-memory syndrome, i don't want to read a gain though.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

Good idea. Didn't see much NV on it at all, if any...

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

i went to his exhibition with teh pigs but the RSPCA beat me to it, no pigs for me :

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

The RSPCA beat the pigs first?

Sorry, I'll get my coat.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

Which thread is this?
-- Kv_nol (kn0l4n80@
the lex meltdown one.

-- EARLY-90S MAN (miltonpinski@

"the lex meltdown one". That narrows it down plenty, doesn't it? Har.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

Koogs, you do know the latest global population statistics, right?

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

that paris thread is GREAT.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

1.7 billion people have no access to clean drinking water. 20 billion people live below the poverty line.

NOT TRUE! total world population is about 6.5 billion right now.

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/world.html

― ath (ath), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

Wasn't that the joke?

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

it's not a good joke so it's hard to tell.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

jaxon's friend steve's paintng approx 1000X better than banksy's.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

I don't see the joke at all. I'm pretty sure he/they/it meant 2 billion.

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

I understood it as taking the piss out of people throwing around the largest numbers they can when trying to look passionate about the cause, and all the people at fundraisers nodding along and agreeing but not really reading or listening properly or genuinely caring. Everything apart from the "morons at art shows" line looks tongue in cheek. I don't know though, it seems a bit cleverer than the Paris Hilton thing.

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

The delivery on the card is completely straight faced. There's the little wine joke at the end. It's clearly a misprint.

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

Either that or ignorance, which the general level of intelligence on display at the show seems to suggest.

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

Aah, he's a bit of a tit then. Not doing anything obvious to solve poverty other than making statements about how other people only ever make statements and don't bother doing anything just seems such a stupid thing to do if he's being sincere, I assumed it was a joke.

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Thursday, 21 September 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

― Confounded (Confounded), Thursday, 21 September 2006 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know much about Banksy, but I do know that making fun of Paris Hilton is like shooting fish in a barrel, and the only purpose I can conceive for it would be to be maneuver into the slipstream of her celebrity and get wads of free publicity. IOW, a publicity stunt.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure this was DangerMouse's plan as well.

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

"barley" man weighs in.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 22 September 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

i love that brooker's columns (cf the amazing timberlake one) are turning into the more vitriolic bits of tvgohome now.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 22 September 2006 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

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this image seems relevant

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxHqyAtX0AA1NIW.jpg:large

― Neil S, Thursday, 17 January 2019 14:31 (seven years ago)

five months pass...

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jul/04/archive-tv-interview-may-reveal-identity-of-banksy

That's Robert Del Naja, no?

― nate woolls, Friday, 5 July 2019 03:50 (six years ago)

he's wearing coloured contact lenses if it is

― Rory end to the lowenbrow (Noodle Vague), Friday, 5 July 2019 08:18 (six years ago)

Also, he's described as a "young man"... Del Naja was 38 in 2003.

― Tuomas, Friday, 5 July 2019 08:21 (six years ago)

"Banksy’s people were unimpressed.."

he's so damn hip and from the streets that he doesn't have a PR team or whatever famous ppl usually have .. he has "his people".

― calzino, Friday, 5 July 2019 08:26 (six years ago)

another fucking waste of an expensive public school education.

― calzino, Friday, 5 July 2019 08:34 (six years ago)

His manager Holly is Peter Cushing’s niece.

― suzy, Friday, 5 July 2019 08:39 (six years ago)

Let's settle this

Let's settle this once and for all, what is the true identity of #Banksy - I mean obviously it's #NigelRees
— uoʇƃuᴉɹɹƎ sǝɯɐſ (@weejay) July 5, 2019

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 5 July 2019 08:43 (six years ago)

would rather get outed as a former operation ore defendant or a secret tory member than this absolute poltroon.

― calzino, Friday, 5 July 2019 08:47 (six years ago)

lol every time i hear banksy i think about what a complete fucking fraud the whole exit through the gift shop bs was

― buzza, Friday, 5 July 2019 09:11 (six years ago)

AH DO YOU SEE THOUGH

― kinder, Friday, 5 July 2019 09:26 (six years ago)

i love that moment when u realise your thought has been truly provoked!

― calzino, Friday, 5 July 2019 09:43 (six years ago)

my ops have been well challed

― kinder, Friday, 5 July 2019 09:47 (six years ago)

two months pass...

https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/68617815_10157526165585120_825123832435048448_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&_nc_oc=AQnnU5IaUVulOahsSDcmAKfQ1yIHd9WFIMjyayAAD5Z_Kbg2c-PgAT0LZalUNzQ--V8eHimXjLpsdI9GRrfUwcuU&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-2.xx&oh=9ca70bf1db99699ed41ac24d708c0ab5&oe=5E39D1DF

― nickn, Saturday, 21 September 2019 18:52 (six years ago)

Massive Attack played a show in DC same day

― flappy bird, Monday, 30 September 2019 04:40 (six years ago)

makes u think

― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 01:37 (six years ago)

Wow never thought banksy would actually kill to protect his secret, a chilling development

― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 03:17 (six years ago)

Funny, I never thought banksy had anything worthwhile to share with the world, including their real name.

― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 03:21 (six years ago)

he's done it again

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ee976fad236015742327575549084ec35d7f2aa5/0_42_3500_2100/master/3500.jpg

― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Thursday, 3 October 2019 20:27 (six years ago)

trying again...

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ee976fad236015742327575549084ec35d7f2aa5/0_42_3500_2100/master/3500.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=da22f5c8aaffb255b574dfb2513576f7

― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Thursday, 3 October 2019 20:31 (six years ago)

definitely worth it

― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Thursday, 3 October 2019 20:31 (six years ago)

lol i thought that failed link was a "makes u think" joke, but now the scales have truly fallen from my eyes!

― calzino, Thursday, 3 October 2019 20:37 (six years ago)

He's really got great can control.

― nickn, Thursday, 3 October 2019 20:50 (six years ago)

seven months pass...

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-52556544

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/83AB/production/_112170733_banksy1.jpg

A new Banksy artwork has appeared at Southampton General Hospital.
The largely monochrome painting, which is one square metre, was hung in collaboration with the hospital's managers in a foyer near the emergency department.
It shows a young boy kneeling by a wastepaper basket dressed in dungarees and a T-shirt.
He has discarded his Spiderman and Batman model figures in favour of a new favourite action hero - an NHS nurse.

― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 9 May 2020 08:51 (six years ago)

I have been biting my lip as seemingly everyone shares this this week, sure this is a safe space to complain about it though.

― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 9 May 2020 08:53 (six years ago)

such trite fucking shit

― calzino, Saturday, 9 May 2020 08:53 (six years ago)

totally apolitical as well

― calzino, Saturday, 9 May 2020 08:54 (six years ago)

fp'd banksy for this one

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 9 May 2020 09:03 (six years ago)

Banky is a cunt I heard the other day

― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 9 May 2020 09:06 (six years ago)

thing is even if he was in normal trenchant social commentary banksy mode it would have been still shit!

― calzino, Saturday, 9 May 2020 09:08 (six years ago)

i.e. if the little boy was boris johnson and the action figure in the bucket was winston churchill

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 9 May 2020 09:10 (six years ago)

Boris jerking off in ICU with a copy of Razzle next to a mountain of Tiny Tim corpses. I'm doing his job for him here

― calzino, Saturday, 9 May 2020 09:18 (six years ago)

careful calz you'll get a turner prize at this rate

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 9 May 2020 09:42 (six years ago)

You should send that idea to Jim'll Paint It.

― brain (krakow), Saturday, 9 May 2020 10:14 (six years ago)

Is banky aware that only nurses in pornography wear big red crosses on their uniforms

― Appleman Appears: 20/2/2020. Whose Cider You On? (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 9 May 2020 14:56 (six years ago)

Banky is not aware of anything that happens on Earth

― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 9 May 2020 14:57 (six years ago)

such trite fucking shit

From Banksy? Surely not?

― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 May 2020 15:46 (six years ago)

There's a continuum with "trenchant & simplistic but basically on the right side so guess we should let it slide" on one end and this fucking thing on the other.

― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 9 May 2020 16:02 (six years ago)

So glad I no longer have to walk past at least 4 of this turd's Jamie Reid meets whoever the fuck designed Ninja Tunes album covers horseshit on my way to and from work.

― Maresn3st, Saturday, 9 May 2020 19:30 (six years ago)

I mean, I won’t bemoan the sentiment, but Banksy continually cementing himself as the Gen X Thomas Kinkade.

― circa1916, Saturday, 9 May 2020 21:53 (six years ago)

I will bemoan the sentiment, nurses shouldn't be expected to be heroes, they are just people doing a job which only has this level of risk because the government hasn't provided them with adequate PPE. Making out like they are all selfless warriors only makes it less of a scandal when they die.

― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 9 May 2020 21:57 (six years ago)

Yeah I mean I’m not saying it isn’t stupid and confused.

― circa1916, Saturday, 9 May 2020 22:00 (six years ago)

three months pass...

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/08/banksy-louise-michel/

"Banksy’s latest artwork can be spotted on a vessel rescuing refugees from north Africa, who are attempting to cross the Mediterranean to find safety in Europe."

"The anonymous British artist [] used the proceeds from the sale of an artwork to purchase a former French Navy boat"

― koogs, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 08:45 (five years ago)

one month passes...

Fucking new Banky in Nottingham, some twee bullshit appears while we've got a serious second wave. Shout out to the champs who graffitied over it.

― emil.y, Saturday, 17 October 2020 13:47 (five years ago)

The people who paint over his shit are the real Bankys

― 1000 Scampo DJs (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 October 2020 13:51 (five years ago)

They sent out police to protect it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

― emil.y, Saturday, 17 October 2020 13:52 (five years ago)

lol fight the power

― 1000 Scampo DJs (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 October 2020 13:53 (five years ago)

the hula hoop is covid and we are trapped within it, do u see?

― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Saturday, 17 October 2020 14:10 (five years ago)

Ahhhhhhhh!

― emil.y, Saturday, 17 October 2020 14:12 (five years ago)

Banky is a cop

But like a sound one, who would totally do a gay kiss, for a dare like

― Gab B. Nebsit (wins), Saturday, 17 October 2020 14:37 (five years ago)

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