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While skewering the art world’s pretensions, Banksy has maintained an activist’s belief in the power of images to effect change. At a show in Bristol in 2009, he hung a painting with a hefty ...
- Will Ellsworth-Jones
Apr 28, 2024 · The themes of power, violence, and discipline that You Told That Joke Twice explores are as pertinent today as they were in 2000. Banksy's work continues to resonate because it reflects the persistent issues that society grapples with, making his art both a mirror and a hammer: it shows us our reality and challenges us to shape it differently.
- Essie King
Feb 10, 2021 · February 10, 2021. He might be one of the most famous names in the art world, but the same can't be said for the man himself.
Aug 15, 2024 · By drolly dislocating Van Gogh's intensely intimate canvas to the seemingly out-of-the-way context of "petrol stations" and "crude oil", Banksy challenges us to consider to what extent meaning...
Feb 14, 2020 · Banksy is a famous - but anonymous - British graffiti artist. He keeps his identity a secret. Although a lot of his art is produced in public places, he usually only reveals it's his after it has...
May 7, 2007 · Lauren Collins on Banksy, the invisible man of graffiti art, whose anti-authoritarian whimsy has won him a colossal following.
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Some street artists admire Banksy — crediting him with making street art in the UK commercially viable and critically respected — but others bear him animosity. Banksy’s campaign of self-promotion is unending.
