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Posted by dryadin 6 days ago

New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag(www.smithsonianmag.com)
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jchip303 6 days ago|
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Gongo_Emperor 6 days ago||
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dickens5 6 days ago||
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lschueller 6 days ago||
Well, for a failing artist he is quite impactful, isn't he? News around the world reporting about it. People discussing it. This seems to be quite inspiring and anything else but failing.
BLKNSLVR 6 days ago||
Got you to comment, job done. Engagement: tick.
_m_p 6 days ago||
Ok boomer.
haunter 6 days ago||
He definitely got a permit for that which makes the whole thing even more laughable
tim333 5 days ago||
He's no doubt not got a permit. However Banksy is something of a popular British institution these days.
CPLX 6 days ago||
There's no definitely about that at all. The city of Westminster issued a statement that seems fairly clear that they were as surprised as everybody else but are taking steps to protect it.
tialaramex 6 days ago||
Yeah, one of my distant friends is a councillor in a borough where Banksy did a mural years back and it was definitely much more about ensuring the standing "Send in workers to paint over any graffiti" reaction doesn't happen than some sort of "That's nice, the committee which issued the permit for this didn't tell me when it would happen". So far as she told me she heard about it the same way most people did, it was on the local news that morning.
everfrustrated 6 days ago||
The idea that Banksy's identity is unknown is a complete myth perpuated by the popular press.

The guy is well known and very much part of the establishment.

hn_throwaway_99 6 days ago||
> The idea that Banksy's identity is unknown is a complete myth perpuated by the popular press.

I know saying RTFA is supposed to be against the HN guidelines, but it takes an amazing amount of confidently ignorant chutzpah to declare something "a complete myth perpetuated by the popular press" when the subtitle of this article literally states:

> less than two months after a journalism investigation into Banksy’s true identity was published

parpfish 6 days ago|||
so why don't you share who it is with the rest of the class? why help perpetuate his (her?) secret identity mystique
hactually 6 days ago|||
> Banksy was born Robin Gunningham but later took the name David Jones

long been known as establishment friendly

neonstatic 6 days ago||
It's pretty obvious once you look at the art - it has a very specific political leaning, which also happens to have been the predominant one in the UK since Blair.
throwaway27448 6 days ago|||
Blind?
actionfromafar 6 days ago|||
closet-fascist?
neonstatic 6 days ago||
Europe has gone so far left-wing, that not-left-enough are called fascist :)
jrflowers 6 days ago|||
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-a...
phainopepla2 6 days ago|||
He also ripped his style off Blek le Rat and the political element to his work is jejune.
pavel_lishin 6 days ago||
Would you say that it's shallow and pedantic?
phainopepla2 6 days ago||
Shallow yes, pedantic not really
songshu 6 days ago|||
I’ve been on this for 20 years. The guy has coffee table books! He cashes checks! He took something that was previously done anonymously and for free, put his name on it and started charging for it. Good luck to him, but anonymous he is not.
NomDePlum 6 days ago|||
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celticninja 6 days ago||
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slopinthebag 6 days ago||
What are you talking about?
jansan 6 days ago||
Who decides that this is from Banksy? I could make a stencil graffiti in my village and claim it's from Banksy and noone could prove me wrong. Or is he using a digital signature as proof of authorship?
matteason 6 days ago||
He posts on his Instagram to verify authenticity: https://www.instagram.com/p/DXwf7pis6KT
vessenes 6 days ago|||
If you want to know authenticity, you submit to https://pestcontroloffice.com/auth1.asp -- they verify / deny, and that is the final word.
bjourne 6 days ago||
Is that site for real? It almost seems like some kind of Monty Pythonesque humour site.
infinitewars 6 days ago||
Yes it's real: https://banksy.co.uk/in.html (licensing)
seydor 6 days ago||
His agent would tell the media that your vandalism is not genuine
coolca 6 days ago||
This Bansky guy is the edgy middle schooler art
postsantum 6 days ago|
This statue should be the symbol of "I am 14 and this is deep"
gib444 6 days ago||
People are waking up to the decades of gaslighting and lies about failed immigration. It can't be stopped now. Nobody cares if they are called a "racist" because the word has been overused and is meaningless.

Much of the media relentlessly continues with its gaslighting of course because the establishment wants and needs immigration.

But people know they barely hear English in many parts of England, see high streets full of criminal fronts [0], know that many are a net tax drain, know an increased population is straining services and housing and so on.

It's about failed immigration - regardless if they're from Poland or from Pakistan.

It is ironically many on the left who are stupid and manipulated by the presence of some far right loons, which gives them a convenient excuse to listen to nobody except themselves. They are blinded by their own smugness and have been manipulated by the pro-immigration establishment sadly

[0] https://www.tradingstandards.uk/media/3183107/hidden-in-plai...

tim333 5 days ago|
Maybe but not sure how that relates to the statue?
gib444 5 days ago||
Er I thought it was obvious? The statue, which is a massive dig at nationalism/blind patriotism - or perhaps any love for your own country at all...

It's pretty offensive given how far the scales were balanced in the other direction for so long.

How did you interpret the statue?

WhereIsTheTruth 6 days ago|
For some unknown reasons, the mainstream media wants to make sure i see this

Baby, psyop me, one more time

spiderfarmer 6 days ago|
Next Banksy artwork should depict paranoid people who delude themselves to the point where they think everything is about them.
WhereIsTheTruth 6 days ago||
A sheep is a sheep, biped or quadruped, it doesn't matter
spiderfarmer 6 days ago||
Tinfoil is cheap.
WhereIsTheTruth 5 days ago||
Yet still no chips
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