Hanksy is a street artist who puts Tom Hanks’ face on copies of Banksy’s art. His first show, which just closed at the Krause Gallery on the Lower East Side, and where the menu offered boxes of chocolates and Dr. Pepper, nearly sold out completely, according to the dealer. “I think what made it such a success is the genuine honesty in it,” gallery owner Ben Krause told me. “Hanksy really is a huge Tom Hanks fan and a huge Banksy fan.”

Images of Hanksy’s pieces, pasted and sprayed over walls in both New York and Chicago, gained momentum over corners of the internet, not just those [...]

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 [...]