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

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his pix are always such fun to find when you come across them in places which are actually really GENUINELY hard to imagine how he got them there, so i think it's nice that Art Gallery Types can now get to feel the same frisson w/o actually leaving the building!!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

is he more boring than neckface?

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

i tried to find the pulp fiction plus bananas one - which i see every time i go go to a FAP in town centre - but it's not on the net i don't think

east london is full of them, obv

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link

he is a good thing, as far as fun art you can see off the bus goes

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link

i dig banksy, i'm shocked spencer and adam don't.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link

if you come at him via these museum pranks being much of a big deal then being all jaded's not so surprising a reaction: also a lot of his stuff which is great in situ looks very generic in photos (esp.if some nitwit is yelling "subversive" at you at the same time)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link

there's a rat w.sunglasses i want to link but it keeps crashing explorer

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link

The stuff on the web looks kind of eh, but the concept of the museum thing sound amusing enough.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I overheard (it was kind of impossible not to) an elderly British woman talking about how wonderful this was this afternoon. She gives me hope that old age won't suck completely.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 01:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Has anybody got pictures of the stuffed birds he put everywhere?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 03:43 (nineteen years ago) link

old age only doesn't suck if yr british milo!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 08:14 (nineteen years ago) link

There was a bit in that re-search book, "pranks" about some guy who couldn't get his art exhibited, so he bought a bunch of electrical outlet sockets, painted pictures on them, then dressed up in overalls and replaced all of the gallery's electrical outlets with his. I seem to remember he even held an opening!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 31 March 2005 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Wow, his stuff looks good, only got a quick look as I've got High Heid Yins in the office today, but I want to see more.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Thursday, 31 March 2005 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Wow, I missed this thread until I started doing the categorisation thing.

I still really like Banksy, despite the countless copycatters in Hoxditch now, the originals still really have something of the unexpected, the genuinely bizarre and eye-catching.

I'm kind of tired and jaded when it comes to art pranks, but the fact that it's *him* that did it really does make it seem kind of cool.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 31 March 2005 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.woostercollective.com/2005/03/wooster-exclusive-banksy-hits-new.html

the rest i can take or leave but i love that soup can

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:57 (nineteen years ago) link

i quite like the bug also but the very fact this is found on a "culture jamming" site injects way more smugness than his work can carry

i still heart his real actual graffiti mostly

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:08 (nineteen years ago) link

An LA artist did something similar a few years ago - he added to a freeway sign, and it went unnoticed for a while.

Story and pics here.

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 2 April 2005 00:01 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah i quoted his siter in a random thread last week ago, i forget the thread or reference but ile needs more modern art threads. i like jet-pack and his 16bit stickers.

― kephm (kephm), Saturday, 2 April 2005 00:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Has anybody got pictures of the stuffed birds he put everywhere?

http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/the-birds.html

― kephm (kephm), Saturday, 2 April 2005 00:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Gah. I know who you mean, but can't remember his name. He wrote a piece for Fortean Times about it. I think he was possibly called Jeffrey Vallance, or something along those lines.

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 2 April 2005 06:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Funny, my start page posted me this fact today:

1935: A highly artistic and creative prankster named Hugh Troy wanted to see which was more compelling—van Gogh’s paintings, which were on display at the Museum of Modern Art, or the artist’s severed ear. So Troy fashioned a fake ear out of meat and set it on a table in the gallery with a note describing it as the very ear van Gogh cut off in the depths of his despair. Before long, more people were busy going gaga over the ear than over the artworks.

― absolutego (ex machina), Sunday, 3 April 2005 03:00 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

they were talking about Banksy on radio 4 this morning. he has a new exhibition in LA oe bit of which is a live elephant painted with a wallpaper pattern in a makeshift room also covered in the same pattern. the presenters and the art correspondant on the spot and the american one they also spoke to all seemed to completely miss the joke. (or maybe that was a meta-joke on the listeners?)

no mention of elephant here either:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5335400.stm

oddly, 10 minutes later whilst talking about a proposed new reservoir, someone on the 'phone used the phrase 'elephant in the room'. was this a coincidence or had he been listening?

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 14 September 2006 07:27 (seventeen years ago) link

exploitative cunt. hope the elephant is getting paid.

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Thursday, 14 September 2006 07:37 (seventeen years ago) link

that elephant in full: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5344676.stm

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 14 September 2006 08:55 (seventeen years ago) link

ELEPHANTS!!!!!!

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42085000/jpg/_42085606_pinkelephant_416.jpg

COme on, it's brilliant.

And it's pink, too. I'm a sucker for pink elephants on parade.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Thursday, 14 September 2006 09:01 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a bit Roy Walker's Catchphrase, I think.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 14 September 2006 09:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Bansky more like Wanksy

― Breean Weldrick (weldrick), Thursday, 14 September 2006 09:17 (seventeen years ago) link

amirite

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 14 September 2006 09:19 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.bojates.com/albums/davidblaine/blaine1.jpg

^^^^
ART!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 14 September 2006 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link

what precisely does 'an elephant in a warehouse in los angeles' draw attention to other than Banksy himself?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 14 September 2006 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Elephants. Baby elephants. Baby Elephant Walk. Henry Mancini. The theme from Peter Gunn. Gun control.

― S- (sgh), Friday, 15 September 2006 05:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah come on guys! "There's an elephant in the room!"

as said by me on the Mercury Prize thread!

as in "It's obvious and yet everyone is pretending it's not there"

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 15 September 2006 06:39 (seventeen years ago) link

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