At least one of Banksy’s latest works reveals a more complicated take on the world.
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New Banksys Pop Up as Old Ones Are Freshened Up [UPDATED]
It’s another day, and another Banksy in New York, as the secretive street artist has revealed a new series in three different locations.
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Banksy Watch: Chelsea Gets Pissed On
Street art photographer Luna Park spotted this new Banksy a day before it was officially announced on Banksy’s website.
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Another Day, Another #BanksyNY: First Piece Buffed, Audio Guide Down
The new day brought with it a second Banksy, but now the amusing audio guide hotline appears to be down, and overnight the first piece went through a graffiti metamorphosis of its own.
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Banksy Surfaces in New York With New Work, Playful Telephone Hotline
Celebrated career criminal Banksy has apparently begun a monthlong residency in New York City as part of an exhibition his website is calling Better Out Than In, “an entire show on the streets of New York.”
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The Girl Gore Aesthetics of White Lace, Ghosted Bodies, and Animal Menageries at Expo Chicago
CHICAGO — I didn’t want to go to the art fair. I never do. A lot of stuff at art fairs is the same-ish, and galleries are trying their best to sell the most. Yet the art fairs keep coming, and as the market has proven Chicago is no exception.
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Stodgy Brit Has Something to Say About Banksy, Capitalism, “Ghetto Youth”
To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, the tree of blogging must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of morose critics. And although here at Hyperallergic we believe that it’s better to dwell on the redeeming features of the written word, we do appreciate a good hate-read now and then.
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Street Art Isn’t a Crime Until Somebody Steals It: Banksy in Miami
I’m finding it a little hard to feel upset at the Banksy “exhibition” that was on display in Art Miami and its sister fair Context this past week. Others have found reasons to boycott the affair, and Marc and Sara Schiller, two street art aficionados I respect, wrote on Wooster Collective that they are calling out the Miami Art Fair for letting all this happen: “Knowing that Banksy has condemned the show, they could have easily rejected the exhibition and not legitimized the stolen artwork. But they didn’t. And this tells you a lot about what their motivations are.”
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Banksy Debbie-Downers The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
Banksy is celebrating Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee with a bit of art.
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Required Reading
This week, new Banksy, artists/writers design money, early Christian art, talking to Gabriel Orozco, catalogue raisonnés, modern art toilets, globalizing art history, design criticism and political photo trends.
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Required Reading
This week, Occupy art, Picasso abodes, an artist on Iraq, UK art blogs, lo-fi pics and working as a culture industry serf.
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Corporate Media Fictions: Brad Downey and Banksy
Just over two weeks ago, a story about an excavated Banksy in Berlin ricocheted across the global media. Most of the coverage featured closely cropped smiley faced riot police and the name “Banksy” screamed in the media coverage. From the tone of the coverage and the emphasis on the discovery of a lost Banksy most people probably assumed it was another case of an opportunist commercial gallery swiping a street art work and displaying it in order to make a potential profit. What many people — and news outlets — didn’t realize was that the glimpse of the Banksy was only part of a much larger work by artist Brad Downey.