Banksy C/D

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.

Oh sorry Josh I misread your post as THIS THREAD ignore me.

"Oh, you mean Robbins! I was thinking of that awful Harold Robinson."

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does anyone else pronounce it bahnksie

bonxy wonxy

kind of wonder what sort of shitheads collect banksys

banksy wanksies

and whether they hang them salon style

regardless of what you think of his art, this "Dismaland, Bemusement Park" thing is a pretty extraordinary thing to have pulled off in secret.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/aug/20/banksy-dismaland-amusements-anarchism-weston-super-mare

http://www.dismaland.co.uk/

So brilliant. It's not DISNEY-land, it's DISMA-Land. Get it? Wow. This will change the way I feel about everything forever.

Good to see him diminishing the death grip of neoliberalism with his A level art projects again, but seriously fuck off forever

Yeah, I get it, thanks. I think it's a pretty massive achievement.

I meant to Banksy not to you ftr

Oh I know, no worries

I found the Cinderella crash scene so vulgar and shocking that it was amazing on its own terms.

I mean just from having seen it on TV.

It is just amazing having this much sarcasm in one place

ILX? Not that surprising.

It actually seems that this is something like ILX writ large and for public view. I don't think that's a bad thing. Spencer's sarcastic post seems indicative of it, no?

I mean it's easy to brush off but the Cinderella/paparazzi thing is so gross and the whole undertaking is so unexpected that it overrides any glib rejection of it.

the sarcasm quote was from the guardian article :)

I know! I thought it was funny.

i'm kind of amazed by the photos i'm seeing of this tbh.

Me too. The fact that it will change the way spencer chow thinks about everything forever is just a bonus.

Julie Burchill has rewritten Punch & Judy to give it a Jimmy Savile spin.

oh great