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The Street Art 'The Sun' Thought Was Banksy
There's a reason why some newspapers are going out business, they suck. The NY Sun, which is standing on its last leg and only had a good art section left to make it remotely relevant, writes about some new wheatpasted artwork making its way onto the streets and wrongly speculates that it's Banksy. They assumed that since Steve Lazarides is Banksy's agent, and is launching a New York gallery with a show featuring his crop of public painters, it naturally had to be Sir Banks. The ailing paper must not be able to discern the most elementary characteristics of Robert Gunningham's signature style: he uses stencils. All the work described by The Sun was wheatpeasted stuff, like the RD bombed JR piece. According to street art aficionado Jake Dobkin, the fresh crop of work was done by Mr. BrainWash who is not even in the exhibit, he's just in town. Click below for more of Mr. BrainWash's stuff, including a law officer dressed Warren Buffet, John Lennon with a bindi, a Britney-Michael Jackson fusion, and other Warholian imagery.
Photos: Copyranter
by ANIMAL on September 25, 2008
Comments (5)
not spam, but I thought this was fitting for that MBW toy
http://theworldsbestever.com/2008/09/24/opportunism-strikes
Posted by the enablist | September 25, 2008 5:23 PM
these "works" look nothing like banksy.
Posted by god | September 26, 2008 11:40 AM
this is crapola, whoever thinks this is "art" is silly,
all the poser 'art' blogs have billions of pictures of this same crap, asswipes walking by with camers and phones and posting them online like they are street art experts without realizing they are part of the problem, MBW is TOY
Posted by mediocore art guy | September 26, 2008 3:45 PM
Whether you like his work or not is kind of irrelevant here. The point is how off The Sun was in thinking this was Banksy. This ain't a diary guys!
Posted by Bucky Turco | September 26, 2008 4:46 PM
yes, thats part of the whole problem,
you have a great website with some hit news
but its kind of silly how a ski throwup dissed by RD is news, this is the game, the game is over if any tossup dizzed below 14th st becomes news fodder for the art world.
Posted by mediocore art guy | September 26, 2008 6:01 PM