Banksy C/D

yeah dude is the special unnamed exhibitor at that show so its related to that prob

show sucks imo

cosmo: oak/divis. there is a recently commisioned blek le rat piece inside cafe divis, oddly enough.

i'm told that this is Priest, not Banksy

well shit, and it has all the unmistakable hallmarks of a typical Priest piece.

I'm still wondering if Exit Through The Gift Shop is just a extended revenge piece against Shepard Fairy (who still comes across as a tremendous putz) for introducing him to Thierry in the first place.

it's not.

Here’s what actually happened: When we first met Thierry, he was supposed to be making a movie about Shepard. He was filming Shepard all the time, wherever he went. They made a deal, 50/50, we’ll make a movie. They shot for five years doing this, Shepard in his Spiderman prime, leaping off buildings and stuff. At the end of five years, Shepard says “Alright, let’s put the movie together,” and Thierry said “I’m not giving you the footage.” He’s actually quite smart and can be a little devious-he figured “I just took away five years of your fame,” because in his heart, Thierry always wanted to be the artist. He figured he was messing up his competition, in a way, and holding onto valuable footage. Shepard didn’t quite know what to do and filed a lawsuit against Thierry.

Then Banksy figured “I’m in the same situation, he has tons of footage for me.” He had some of the only footage of Banksy where you could actually see who he was. So he calls up Thierry and said “I’m sending you a first-class ticket to London, get on the plane, I have to talk to you.” That’s when he told Thierry that he would make a movie about him instead, in exchange for the footage, which Thierry turned over to Banksy. That’s when they realized that the footage wasn’t nearly what they thought it might be, but it turns out they did get a different sort of treasure trove, because you’ve got a portrait of this weird guy, Thierry.

http://www.slashfilm.com/secret-origin-exit-gift-shop-documentary-extortion/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+slashfilm+%28%2FFilm%29

sounds very plausible

that makes a lot of sense.

thierry is still "real" but is also a banksy "project" (not a hoax)

Casting Rob Schneider in this was brilliant.

lol @ this bullshit film

Too right.

With the voice distorter thing in Exit Through the Gift Shop, Banksy sounds exactly like Alan Moore.

Quite a story.

Just got email spam hawking art from Mr. Brainwash's son, Hijack. Ouroboros, etc.

http://i.imgur.com/buJoCo0.png

Showing the entrepreneurial spirit that made America great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX54DIpacNE

http://slacktory.com/2013/01/i-found-banksys-notebook/

comments on that youtube (xp) are an abyss

http://i.imgur.com/nRYabrz.jpg

NYer cartoons: doing pithy pop-art commentaries on modern life since before Banksy could hold a spray can

Banksy sucks so much!!!!

New York: City of the Shrugged Shoulders

MIND BLOWN
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-27021675

i get it!

love his subtlety

Banksy has not yet claimed the work but it bears his hallmarks, say experts.

Yeah, because it's on a fucking wall.

there are still phonebooths over there huh

http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/tvbizwire/tardis-doctor-who.jpg

I love the way this 40 odd year old mystery man from a privileged background passes himself off as an idiot 17 year old kid who is struggling to bridge the gap between 'A' level art and a fucking Foundation course.

makes u think

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/74252000/jpg/_74252097_74252095.jpg

idk, i find otherwise politically trite ideas more stilling when conveyed in illustrated, iconic graffiti form. i like all of these. they seem playful.

more stirring, i meant

I respect Banksy for going to the trouble -- priveledged or not, nobody has to do this stuff, and the fact he's using it as a platform for social commentary places him in a different category 90% of street artists. As to the actual artwork, I can take it or leave it -- it almost seems beside the point, as my level of enjoyment comes down to how well I feel he gets his message across.

The tale of that abandoned storage tank turned into a house near the Hollywood sign earned Banksy a lot of respect in my book, tbh.

Ha, amazingly, this has just been turned into a play!

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/the-water-tank-the-banksy-prank-and-the-later-life-of-the-homeless-elephant-man-tachowa-covington-8735581.html

thumbs up

come on guys, these are the kind of ideas that would be rejected by a school magazine for being too obvious. I still quite like his artistic style and I suppose the media circus aspects aren't his fault, but that doesn't stop the concepts being deeply trite and frankly a bit silly.

aren't ENTIRELY his fault that is- he's fairly assiduous in cultivating his "mindbombing man of mystery" persona

most street art would be rejected by schools as being ILLEGAL and UN-ARTISTIC, especially by art schools. Also, hard to label graffiti as being too obvious when writers basically just coming up with new ways to write THEIR OWN NAME

oh god is it 1984 already? you got to help me get back to the future

xp graffiti's great (lol at your caricaturing of it), Banksy's a one-idea self-publicist who got lucky and who we will never hear the end of

I quite dug Basquiat and Haring in my youth and recall college lecturers telling me they were hack scrawlers + hyped up non-entities that were common in the 80's art scene, my answer was you are talking Julian Schnabel there maybe. I imagine these elders in their 60's now would be spitting blood about this guy and I would be heartily agreeing with them. I wish he would become a genuine mystery and disappear forever.

Man, why don't people, like, put away their phones, and like, really talk to each other?

Banksy must be a lurker on

quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a rolling new york times thread

That thread is like a surefire way to find a thousand people or things worse than the worst thing you might think of Banksy.

Good thread for obtuse garbage from Americans who don't seem to know fuck all about art or banksy.