hyperallergic:

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. READ MORE

thedailywhat:

Street Art of the Day: Cast Away-themed Hanksy homage to Banksy’s iconic “Flower Chucker” spotted in the Lower East Side.
[wooster.]

thedailywhat:

Street Art of the Day: Cast Away-themed Hanksy homage to Banksy’s iconic “Flower Chucker” spotted in the Lower East Side.

[wooster.]

supersonicelectronic:

New work by Banksy. (Concerns the street artist Tox who was convicted in London - More Here.)

“The people who run our cities don’t understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit, which makes their opinion worthless. The people who truly deface our neighbourhoods are the companies that scrawl giant slogans across our buildings and buses trying to make us feel inadequate unless we buy their stuff.”

Banksy (via nuuro)

ind3lible:


Exit Through The Giftshop is not only one of the best documentaries of 2010, but it’s one of the best movies of the year. The documentary which is credited to the elusive street art icon Banksy is up for an Oscar, but The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences isn’t sure how to handle…

thedailywhat:

Street Art of the Day: Lauren Conrad (yes, that Lauren Conrad) spotted this Banksy piece called “The Crayola Shooter” somewhere in LA.

The Bristol Bomber is apparently in town to promote Exit Through The Gift Shop with a press tour ahead of his inevitable Oscar sweep.

[laist.]

(Source: thedailywhat)

brianaxblair:

on a banksy kick. i really wanna see exit through the gift shop.

(Source: warpedrati0nale)

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