Fun.

By the way that intersection is never not busy. I don’t care if it’s 3am there’s always lots of people on the streets over there and a lot of car traffic. Sure that’s the case in a lot of manhattan but that spot would be pretty easy to get spotted on a ladder up there.

Lovely piece, pretty similar to the clocks in the Walled Off Hotel.. I hope we will see some more pieces within the next days!

They dress in overalls and do this in the day time, no doubt looking like workers.

This is really bad placement as far as keeping the narrative of Banksy going. This is so obviously not done by the one man vigilante Exit through the gift shop portrayed.

It is also getting almost zero press in the states. I've gotten a lot of hate for this in the past on this board but I think this piece proves my point. The mystery artist thing is not aging well. I really hope an end is near for Banksy before this gets ridiculously bad.

3D is Banksy.

I will try again. No one believes the narrative created in Exit Through the Gift Shop anymore.  Banksy is becoming to good at what he does and is in turn exposing "BANKSY".

He's clearly not the one man in the hood that made him so popular. He is now the rich guy with a team painting a rat on a clock in the most expensive and guarded area of New York City. He's not fooling anyone and that was the magic. GO and try to duplicate that piece you'll be shot.

It's turning into a farce. No one could get away with half thes**t he does.

In my opinion it's time people take the credit they deserve for being involved in Banksy before it becomes a footnote that is no longer fooling anyone.

Banksy is the Pro Wrestling of Graffiti.

It WAS brilliant but now it's over.

I understand that he was always part of a crew. However, that was never mentioned in the film that popularized him. There were ZERO mentions of any crews in exit through the gift shop. This is a well known point that has been brought up by others.

I am attempting to make a point from the view of the majority of the population the ones that turned him into a house hold name. The banksy that was part of a crew is completely different to the banksy 99% know. Its the vigilante graffiti artist that is popular...and it's my point that pieces like this one kill the mystique.

 

Are you saying this was done with permission?
Can you explain why you assume that?

I can't see why it would need to be. Invader does this kind of placement all the time and rarely gets caught.

... how exactly would he be taking a lot of other artists in the scene down with him and 'ruin everything for others'?

... it is not rocket science that his paintings would need more than one person to complete ... never mind hold the ladder ... so to speak ...

... and 'the scene' already knows ...

I hope you're right and there's nothing to worry about.

My point is there's a lot of things about Banksy that could be considered misleading and in the art world that usually never gets spun in a positive light (who did what, who sprayed what, why the signature change, who is involved, who signed which set of prints, how is he doing so many different art mediums etc.) .

My point is that I think this thing has to be dismantled as carefully as it was put together. Or everyone who gained from this surge in popularity could lose from it.

But hey:
Agree to disagree as they say.

urrmmm....almost five to eight?

Wait according to my poll over 60% of people think banksy is one person. You keep saying everyone on the scene knows this isn't true. So which is it?