A visit from a world-famous graffiti artist was the equivalent of money in the Banksy.
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As New Orleans watches the movement of potential hurricane Gustav, another force has hit its yet-to-recover neighbourhoods — the street artist Banksy.
A dozen works by the secretive British artist were spread around the city Friday, on the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
Said Banksy of the operation, “Three years after Katrina I wanted to make a statement about the state of the clean-up operation,” and attested that the city’s levee wall offered “the best painting surface in the state of Louisiana”.
He has been in the city for at least a week, covering surfaces in the hard-hit Lower Ninth Ward, much of which has not yet been rebuilt.
Among the controversial images are one of two soldiers, carrying a TV set and apparently looting, Abraham Lincoln as a homeless man pushing a basket and a marching band wearing gas masks.
There are also works reflecting on the plight of New Orleans’ residents, including an old man in a rocking chair with an American flag below the words “No Loitering,” a boy chasing an umbrella that is blowing out of reach and a girl caught in in a rain shower that comes from under her umbrella.
Banksy painted some of the works over the gray paint left by anti-graffiti campaigner Fred Radtke, who covers up graffiti with paint.
And so the world media thinks it has ‘unmasked’ the elusive Banksy once again. The UK’s Daily Mail has published a pic of an individual they believe to be Banksy.
The photo has been in circulation for a while, but it isn’t the only one Banksy. The photo first appeared in The Evening Standard Newspaper in 2004, and was supposedly taken by a Jamaican photographer named Peter Dean Rickards when banksy flew to Kingston to work on a project.
Anyway, we’ve collated a bunch of Banksy Unmasked pics (after the jump).
You be the judge…
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Graffiti artist Banksy unmasked … as a former public schoolboy from middle-class suburbia
Banksy Unmasked
The artist formerly known as Banksy
No wonder Melbourne is the street-art capital of the world when there is such amazing work on offer. Some of Meggs’ latest offerings have blown me away and the stuff along Hosier Lane is a real treat to see. Do check it out for yourself, it looks a helluva lot more impressive when you’re standing right in front of this kick ass art.
BOMB IT is the explosive new documentary from award-winning director Jon Reiss investigating the most subversive and controversial art form currently shaping international youth culture: graffiti.
Through interviews and guerilla footage of graffiti writers in action on 5 continents, BOMB IT tells the story of graffiti from its origins in prehistoric cave paintings thru its notorious explosion in New York City during the 70’s and 80’s, then follows the flames as they paint the globe. Featuring old school legends and current favorites such as Taki 183, Cornbread, Stay High 149, T-Kid, Cope 2, Zephyr, Revs, Os Gemeos, KET, Chino, Shepard Fairey, Revok, and Mear One. This cutting edge documentary tracks down today’s most innovative and pervasive street artists as they battle for control over the urban visual landscape. You’ll never look at public space the same way again.
BOMB IT has shot in Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Tijuana, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Hamburg, Berlin, Cape Town, São Paulo, and Tokyo.
Shepard Fairey is one of the featured 10 featured artists in the piece - out of 200 artists interviewed around the world only 60 made it into the film and only 10 are featured on the level that Shepard is…
Banksy is going underground with tunnel art exhibition.
The elite of the London art world will convene in Lambeth tonight to examine graffiti in a dank railway tunnel.
A Piece of Melbourne street artwork by reclusive British artist Banksy has now gone under cover.
A clear perspex screen has been installed to protect the quirky piece of graffiti from being vandalised.
The 1m spray-stencil work of a figure in a duffle coat with a diver’s helmet is on the back wall of the Nicholas Building at the entrance to Cocker Alley, off Flinders Lane. It was painted in 2003.
Despite its value, it is often hidden behind rubbish bins. Other Banksy works dotted around Melbourne’s laneways have disappeared under layers of graffiti or through council clean-ups.
The city council’s Street Art Assessment Panel designated the stencil as legal art.
The cover, paid for by the building’s owners, cost a few hundred dollars. Some of Banksy’s London graffiti art has sold for over $450,000.
To view more of Banksy’s Melbourne offerings, please visit my Banksy Flickr set here.
Banksy pulled off an audacious stunt to produce what is believed to be his biggest work yet in central London.
The secretive graffiti artist managed to erect three storeys of scaffolding behind a security fence despite being watched by a CCTV camera.
Then, during darkness and hidden behind a sheet of polythene, he painted this comment on ‘Big Brother’ society.
Yesterday the scaffolding gang returned to remove all evidence - again without the camera operator stopping them.
The work, above a Post Office yard in Newman Street near Oxford Circus, shows a small boy, watched by a security guard, painting the words: ‘One nation under CCTV.’
Andrew Newman, 35, a businessman from Dulwich, who works locally, said: ‘It was only on Sunday morning that the Post Offices guys realised what had happened.’
Artist Banksy Pranks Security.
Secretive graffiti artist Banksy is believed to have created his biggest work yet, under the not-so-watchful eye of security cameras in central London.
Looks like ole Robert Banks is keeping busy these days… here’s some new samplings…
A pioneer of graffiti writers in Europe, Blek le Rat was one of the first people to use stencils to make public art on the street using icons instead of writing his name.
He was first exposed to graffiti in 1971 in New York, but didn’t start making his own until ten years later in Paris. Inspired by a stenciled portrait he saw of Mussolini amongst some WWII ruins during a trip to Italy, he created a stencil of a life size silhouette of a rat running along the streets. He stenciled the rat for two years and quickly became recognized around Paris. This change marked a monumental break from the dominance of New York’s graffiti style. His method of creating street art changed the face of graffiti and still continues to greatly influence artists around the world; from Shepard Fairey and Banksy, to JayBadbc and Oseas Duarte to the young artist wheat pasting work around town.
His work has since evolved beyond the rat icon and taken on a more serious context. He now uses his art to serve a social cause, to evoke reaction and inspire change. Most recently, he pasted hundreds of posters around Paris of Florence Aubenas, a French journalist who was kidnapped in Iraq, hoping to provoke a reaction from politicians and journalists and aid in her release. This project gained Blek incredible public support, and has encouraged him to continue to use his Street Art as a voice for the less fortunate.
OPENING RECEPTION:
APRIL 5TH, 2008
8 - 11pm
ON EXHIBITION:
APRIL 5TH - MAY 2ND, 2008
Banksy strikes again in Islington, north London - the graffiti artist is thought to have struck again overnight, leaving this image on the wall of a pharmacy in north London.
The new painting depicts two children pledging allegiance to UK supermarket giant Tesco. A Tesco plastic bag flies in the place of a flag.
The owner of the pharmacy in Essex Road, Islington, is said to be thrilled by his new paint job.
“I just walked into the shop on Monday and, lo and behold, there it was,” he told the London Paper.
“I am absolutely delighted - I think it’s just fantastic. I’ve heard how much these works can go for.
“We would consider selling the wall, but not the shop. I think anyone who would want to erase it is crazy. It’s a piece of art.” (It’s sad that Banksy has become synonymous with $$$ - JR)
Banksy’s latest graffiti follows Gordon Brown’s warning last week that retailers may be forced to cut down on plastic bags if they do not do so voluntarily.
The Prime Minister has hailed the example of retailers such as Marks and Spencer, who has announced it will charge customers 5p for every carrier bag given out by its food stores.
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