Tag Archives: banksy

Now covered up unfortunately.

March 11, 2008 – 23:15

text: romanywg on youtube
This is Banksys latest street work on the Essex Road, London N1. I filmed the spot for 1 hour on 6th March 2008. It was interesting to note the diverse cross section of the local community that were interested in his work.
Unfortunately it is now covered with perspex to stop it [...]

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Freakquently Asked Questions

January 28, 2008 – 16:41

txt: Questions - www.banksy.co.uk
Aren’t street art auctions a bit lame?
I don’t agree with auction houses selling street art - its undemocratic, it glorifies greed and I never see any of the money.
What’s with all the gallery shows?
None of the print and painting exhibitions in proper art galleries are anything to do with me, it’s all [...]

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Mission possible/impossible/don’t know

November 22, 2007 – 17:26

txt from: Extraordinary daily[article in italian]
“If the mission of art has been to propose new ways of conceiving and feeling to everybody - and not to just a narrow circle of people - not just on special occasions but in everyday life, then it becomes necessary to think about the fact that maybe the art [...]

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The Joy of Not Being Sold Anything

November 19, 2007 – 22:45

txt from: Banksy’s graffiti art sells for half a million
“Perhaps the most incredible aspect of the Banksy phenomenon is neither his meteoric rise, nor the substantial sums of money that his art now commands, but that as a self-confessed guerilla artist, he has been so wholeheartedly embraced by the very establishment he satirises. We are [...]

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