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Street Art Utopia è un passaggio fisso sul web per gli amanti della street art. C'è passione dietro i post pubblicati sul blog e sulla pagina Fb, che denotano come questa corrente artistica abbia sempre più da dire in tutto il mondo. Grazie agli autori più famosi come Banksy (ormai quotato nelle gallerie di tutto il mondo), si sono accesi i riflettori su un genere che è in continua espansione ed evoluzione, senza confini e senza regole.Street Art Utopia è un passaggio fisso sul web per gli amanti della street art.... more
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WTF! Apparently, someone with the access and the know how is pretty sure that they know the identity of Banksy. "If you win this auction I will mail you a piece of paper revealing the true identity of "Banksy". "I have uncovered his identity by matching up the prices of his sold pieces to corresponding tax records. I will reveal no more details.
The winner of this auction is the only person I will ever share this information with.."
The first auction was yanked for being intangible. Fixed! Paper = tangible.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Identity-Banksy-/260720844294?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cb42c5e06#ht_500wt_1075WTF! Apparently, someone with the access and the know how is pretty sure that they... more
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Authorities in the home city of British urban artist Banksy plan to become the first to allow a regular public vote on whether popular works of street graffiti should stay or be removed.
(Castle, T., 2009, September 14, par.1)
The move by Bristol council in the west of England follows a sell-out Banksy exhibition in the city that attracted 300,000 visitors and boosted the local economy by an estimated 10 million pounds ($17 million).
(Castle, T., 2009, September 14, par.2)
Some street paintings will be put on a council website so the public can vote on their merits, said Hopkins. "Anything that is potentially regardable as art, that people might want to keep, we'll potentially put up on the website. "Some stuff, we wouldn't really need to ask, [simply] because people love it."
(Castle, T., 2009, September 14, par.6-8)
The move has its origins in a debate in 2006 over whether a Banksy mural on the side of a Bristol sex health clinic should be allowed to stay. The witty image showed a naked man clinging to a window ledge while a besuited man looks out with a semi-clad woman lingering in the background, and was backed by 93 percent of those who took part in an online vote.
(Castle, T., 2009, September 14, par.9-10)
"It was just ludicrous to spend council money scrubbing off works of art that people actually liked -- it was a tourist attraction."
(Castle, T., 2009, September 14, par.12)
[IMAGE: flickr.com/photos/eddiedangerous]Authorities in the home city of British urban artist Banksy plan to become the first... more
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D'oh....foiled AGAIN! Robbers ho ransacked the home of two airline pilots failed to spot a painting by cult graffiti artist Banksy worth up to £20,000.D'oh....foiled AGAIN! Robbers ho ransacked the home of two airline pilots failed... more
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Cult graffiti artist Banksy, whose works can fetch hundreds of thousands of pounds and are popular with some of the world's biggest stars, has refused to authenticate five works up for auction this weekend in London.
Pest Control, the organization tasked with authenticating the anonymous British artist's works, said it would not approve any street pieces removed from their original setting, partly to crack down on fakes and partly to protect the original concept.
Banksy made a name for himself painting stenciled satirical and political images in public spaces, always keeping his identity hidden.
His work became so valuable that several street pieces were salvaged, including a painting attributed to Banksy on a wall in London that fetched 208,100 pounds ($383,000) in an online sale. The cost of removing the wall and replacing it was not included.
Ben Hanly of Lyon & Turnbull said that the auctioneer would go ahead with the sale of five street pieces even without official verification, adding that it had no doubts the pieces on offer were original.
On its website, Pest Control said that since its creation in January, 89 street pieces and 137 screen prints attributed to Banksy have turned out to be false, potentially involving millions of pounds of losses for the buyers.
"Pest Control does not authenticate street pieces because Banksy prefers street work to remain in situ and building owners tend to become irate when their doors go missing because of a stencil," Pest Control said.
"He would encourage anyone wanting to purchase one of his images to do so with extreme caution, but does point out that many copies are superior in quality to the originals." **************CONTINUES**********Cult graffiti artist Banksy, whose works can fetch hundreds of thousands of pounds and... more
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The year 1971-1974, way before most of you were even a twinkle in your Papa’s eye, is generally regarded as the era when most of the pioneering works in graffiti were created. And at least until the mid 80’s, graffiti was still considered subversive despite the fact that “legit” artists like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat who jumped on the graffiti bandwagon earlier and had already jumped off by that time.
Now almost 40 years later, graffiti has been totally adopted by the mainstream and is considered almost quaint and retro. The angst, rebellion, and hand sprayed styles of the 70’s, have been replaced by Anime-inspired characters and a revival of 80’s Blek le Rat inspired stencils (hello Banksy) that often feel more like graphic design then traditional graffiti except for the fact it is still done illegally.
Despite our lamenting it is good to know the scene in some form is still thriving. And now it appears you can make a decent buck off graffiti or at least acquire 15 minutes of fame, something totally unheard of in 1972.
Here are a few graffiti highlights from this summer so far:
Grand Ma Gritty’s favorite store, Lord & Taylor broke with blue haired tradition last month by featuring graffiti murals in 11 windows by 5 artists from TATS CRU the self-professed Mural Kings from the Boogie Down aka The Bronx. TATS CRU came together back in the early 80’s and has retained an authentic hand sprayed, gritty style.
We use to think Pearl Paint was the graffiti artist’s super store but we were wrong. Now a legit graffiti artist’s establishment has hit the scene this summer on Greenpoint Ave in Brooklyn. “Alphabeta” carries everything a graffiti artist may need minus the "get of jail free" card for illegally spraying. But they may have even solved that problem. They offer their walls on the large outdoor space up to artists. Now they need a freaking website.
We love it when Euros take up an American pastime and make it uniquely their own. We love the paintless new spin on graffiti called “Cuprocking” in the video above. And below you may view the subversively cute graffiti scribbled on Hamburg's walls this summer.
Have some graffiti news to share? Tell us: info@thegrittyandpretty.comThe year 1971-1974, way before most of you were even a twinkle in your Papa’s... more
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The identity of the secretive street artist has been outed by a Sunday newspaper and, shock horror, he's middle class. But does it matter?
July 14, 2008 10:45 AM
Banksy's Cans Festival. Photograph: Jim Dyson/Getty Images
Gasp, horror! Banksy isn't a fictional character. His cover has been blown. He's an actual person who makes art. Worse than that, according to the Mail on Sunday, he went to public school. He's middle class! He lived in suburbia! What did people expect? That just because he started with graffiti and grew into street art that he was some council estate hoodie with a knife?
The Mail on Sunday allegedly spent a year tracking him down - discovering the earth-shattering news that Banksy is a bloke called Robert Gunningham (who went to the same school as Sophie Anderton - though at different times). Spiced up with old interviews, the life the Mail describes is pretty dull. Bloke has middle management parents, goes to school, likes graffiti, makes some art, lives with some mates, moves to London from Bristol. Not exactly headline worthy.
The question of the artist's anonymity seized the public - and more importantly the media - since he first started making serious money. And that's the main issue. The secrecy of Banksy's identity seems to be much more about the public's fascination with celebrity and money than anything to do with art. Who is this invisible person raking in the cash and why isn't he in the pages of Heat magazine or sleazing it up at the back of Art Review? It's a good piece of marketing spin that the artist himself has played up by keeping quiet. If Banksy is a brand, will it be damaged by his outing?
But from an artistic point of view, will Banksy's exposure make his work better or worse now people know who he is? It may make his ability to make a street piece a little more difficult if coppers can follow him home afterwards. (That is assuming the police waste as much time and money as the Mail has on tracking him down.)
Perhaps in some way it's a good shift in people's perceptions of street artists and graffiti writers. They are not all naughty teenagers. Considering that scrawling on streets became popular in the UK in the 1980s, its not surprising that many street artists are closer to 40 than 15. They come from varied backgrounds and they make varied work. The question isn't who is Banksy. The question is who cares?
The identity of the secretive street artist has been outed by a Sunday newspaper and,... more
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