Street Art We Love :: Banksy vs Robbo
When we saw these photos & read the article in the Wall Street Journal (out of all places) we couldn’t help but wonder what’s really behind all this. We came up with a few scenarios and the one that we’d like to believe is as follows. Given Banksy superstar status, why would he so blatantly write over a Robbo tag that’s a reigning piece from an era? Is this Banksy’s way of pulling a legend out of a 16yr retirement? Is this a way for Banksy to shed light on a writer who was the first London “all-city” bomber but who has never sold a “piece” in his career? We’re giving Banksy the benefit of the doubt because it wouldn’t make much sense otherwise. The article has a great slideshow featuring the photos below and deserves a closer look.
Artists We Love :: Banksy Getting Busy
The Sunday Times recently posted an article about Banksy’s views on street art, family, and his decision to step away from big art shows. Included in the cover article was a new street piece by Banksy of a headphone wearing little monkey ready to slate a scene on his clapboard. As a rare treat the artist also provided a short video of himself creating the Sunday Times cover art. A nice little snippet of Banksy getting busy…
Stories We Love :: How Two British Blokes Bought a Banksy Wall
There are some things you just have to see to believe, especially if what you have to see is a piece of art on a wall by UK artist Bansky. I don’t remember another case when I said “are you fucking kidding me” so many times in such a short span of time. Hats off to you Bansky for making life imitate art…
collabos we love :: banksy vs. radiohead
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke has been brought together with graffiti artist Banksy for the video for his new solo song ‘The Hollow Earth’. The film was directed by US filmmaker Raymond Salvatore Harmon and features images of Banksy’s graffiti work. Meanwhile ‘The Hollow Earth’, along with its fellow double A-side ‘Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses’, is available as a free download from the members’ area of Radiohead.com.
artists we love :: banksy paid £1 for bristol show
Banksy was paid the princely sum of £1 by Bristol City Council for staging his massively popular exhibition at the City Museum and Art Gallery.
Videos We Love :: Poster Boy NYC / Al Jazeera Artsworld
Poster Boy NYC has been described as a kind of anti-consumerist Zorro with a razor blade. Preferring to remain anonymous Poster Boy NYC is said to be a group or movement who use razor blades to cut out and re-arrange elements of billboard images on the New York Subway to make both political and satirical statements about contemporary issues.
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