What YEAR are we in? What the hell kind of council flat, biccie-dipping, trench-mouth, kippered herring shit is this? Why is the United Kingdom still falling allover themselves to look at a real-life bona fide Banksy piece like it's some big DEAL. Banksy is EVERYWHERE. Ask Blek the Rat. Banksy is as ubiquitous as the pallid ladyhaunch of the pear-shaped drunk Brummie spreadeagled on the boot of a Peugeot at the Dogging Park. Why are townsfolk calling meetings to preserve his artwork? Especially when he did a piece on somebody's random wall on Beddington Farm Road? Who still loves him now that his amaaaaaaaaazing anonymity was compromised when HE GOT A FUCKING PUBLICIST. It hurts my face that now these same people are returning to earnest council meetings to decide whether it should be RESTORED.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
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Look closely and you can see Choire's tag near the bottom.
Chris Brown strikes again!
<3 you. as if the post about skankboots wasn't enough, this put me over the edge. you just said what I've been trying to say the past two years. feels gooood.
He's still better than Hirst.
Yes? Yes.
I am going to have to disagree with you and Brangelina on this one and side with Hirst.
No! Worship the jewelled skull!
They're both pseudo-transgressive luxury-good producers, so the point is moot.
This.
A whole wall of THIS in the British effing Museum is why I will always be right.
p.s. Neener.
They're both better than Tracey Emin.
Yes!
Everything is always better before it is.
That *is* one of his better ones.
Also, like similarly boring Andy Goldworthy (also British!), I'm sure Banksy doesn't give a shit about these public freebies once they've been thoroughly photographed and videotaped for the eventual licensed monograph, from which he'll make the real money.
Sorry, GoldSworthy.
This isn't Schrödinger's cat, it was vandalism, is vandalism and will be vandalism. Some vandalism is attractive. But that doesn't make it art.
You've lost me.
Schrödinger’s cat is the experiment that holds a cat can be simultaneously alive and dead if you don't open a box because of some quantum hoodoo. 'Street Art' is all transgressive until it becomes museum piece (related: the Splasher was the most brills tagger every because this bullshit about 'reserving' space or not vandalizing 'tags' -- which are vandalism, is a hypocrisy even harder to resolve than quantum mechanics), then every piece before and after magically transforms into something precious? Whatever. You want to spray shit on the side of someone else's house, go ahead. But don't come crying when they decide to clean it up (or some other vandal decides to do the same).
I just have trouble with your mutual exclusion, is/is not art; I think that is a difficult slope to maintain, if you really meant it. Additionally, being transgressive on whatever level is also difficult to maintain because of how quickly things become assimilated. So I guess what I am saying is that I don't feel like the conversation is about whether it is art, but whether it is interesting or good or transgressive or whether Brangelina would prefer the piece as altered by the community voters because that is just so real, man, real and authentic.
Does this include Shepherd Fairey?
For the record, I think his work is succinct like a good bumper sticker and has mass vanilla appeal. Economically speaking, that niche is working quite well for him.
Noooo. It's *about* vandalism.
Wooooohoooo the meds wore off yyyyaaaayyy
(mine did, too)
Stay angry, Mary. Stay angry.
But I loved the pink elephant show so much. It was crass and obvious and beautiful. The only thing that would have made it better would have been if he'd wrapped Brad and Angelina in clingfilm and shellacked them to the wall. But still, such a happening. Also, when he was here in LA he busted into Disneyland and planted a hooded Guantanamo figure right by the Thunder Mountain Railroad ... I am sorry but I love the guy.
Much agreed with LondonLee re: Emin. Hirst's book is wonderful too.
but but but I thought the Awl was the blog that did NOT go all "You think thing X is so cool but I will tell you why you are wrong."
sigh.
Haaated it!
Also I know who Banksy is.