"British street artist Banksy sets up a pop-up stall in New York's Central Park, selling original signed canvases of his work. Some of the work is estimated to be worth around £140,000, despite this, the artist only made $420 (£263) in a day from the stall. This is the latest stunt from the artist, who last week filled a cattle truck full of animal soft toys"
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I was hoping this was about a pop-up stall for pop-up books.
People will buy anything!
British street artist...
By street artist you mean vandal, right?
Some of the work is estimated to be worth around £140,000, despite this, the artist only made $420
Your work is only worth what someone is willing to pay. Period.
Ha! I was going to make a post on this. Think of the people who made off with copies.
Those prints are worth thousands. Tens of thousands.
Tons more on Banksy presently. he's all over the place. [locals cover banksy]
Local hustlers cover up Banksy art in NY then charge $20 to allow peeks.
Another NY graffiti artist (Omar forget his name) follows around and tags and disfigures Banksy because it's not proper graf. (as if)
Another YouTube video of Banksy destroying ephemera. Interesting because you see Bansky. It's tearing the interviewer apart watching all that money being shredded. All that extra crap is worth money but devalues the pieces they support.
I think this is part of Banksy becoming disillusioned. Last night I read a page where the guy had a simple thing from before he was famous. He loved it a lot even though it is kind of stupid. His girlfriend wants him to throw it out and keeps bugging him. But he loves it so. But now that Banksy is famous he regards it with less love. He does not understand that. Now that Banksy is all over the place and expensive as hell, he's not all that cool anymore.
Then Banksy himself publishes "I can't believe these morons buy this shit."
Confusingly, indicating disillusionment with success as commercial artist.
That little stall was worth a couple hundred thousand dollars. Any passerby could have made a fortune.
Think of Picasso roping off a stall incognito. Like him or not, appreciate stencils or not, in terms of $$$ cold dinero, that is what happened here. That is why the sum stated at the end is so tremendously horribly ridiculously, this was one punk prank, way below market value. He connected with the original cheapness of his work. Humbling what people actually think of it.
Maybe he did this stall thing because it was fun? Getting back to his original huskster roots and all.
In April 2007, the Washington Post convinced Joshua Bell, a famous violin virtuoso, to play in the Washington DC subway during the morning rush hour. Bell took his $3.5 million Stradivarius violin and played. Almost no one noticed or stopped to listen. He collected a total of $32 for an hour of playing (excluding a $20 bill that was given by a person who recognized him).
The subway commuters are using each others’ response to the violinist in order to determine their own response to him. Without the cues that signal the violinist’s quality that accompany him when performing in a concert hall, such as expensive tickets and posters, the violinist is judged by other commuters’ reaction to him: as most commuters are primarily concerned with reaching their place of work, this forms the response the commuters signal to one another about the violinist.
You guys know as much about art as you do about your racism:
Dust Bunny Queen,
Your work is only worth what someone is willing to pay. Period.
Really:
"Look at this guy," I said with a note of derision. "Knocking off Banksy."
I know a fake Banksy when I see one — I thought."
Whereas, of course, an angry black man that got his heart ripped out of his chest and eaten by a French woman in a cult that he had stupidly married, is an expert in, well, pretty much everything. Except how to actually talk to anyone who is white without calling them hateful racists full of hatey-hate. Or talk to anyone without calling them stupid sellouts, unless they voted for Obama, whom he claims to hate but always ends up defending and supporting in all things as at least Obama is only Barry Half-White.
(Or Haiti-Hate. Not always clear on what is actually being said. But I have to say, given all the Haitians that have moved to Florida, often coming over here on bathroom toys that have been lashed together, Haitians have a lot of Haiti-Hate too.)
According to Wiki- Bansky was born in 1974.
Don't give up on me, baby.
Icepick,
You're losing everything.
Just like I told ya,...
Massive Attack. hmmm.
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