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[–] 21 points 8 months ago* (6 children)

Throw back to Banksy setting a trap in 2006, and springing it 12 years later:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/watch-14-million-bansky-painting-shred-itself-soon-it-sold-180970486/

"We’ve been Banksy-ed," Alex Branczik, Sotheby’s head of European Contemporary art said in a press conference after the incident. “I’ll be quite honest, we have not experienced this situation in the past, where a painting is spontaneously shredded upon achieving a record for the artist.”

Now that... that's fuckin' art right there.

I love the rest of the article entirely missing the point of Banksy doing that being a surprise.

There, you idiots, frame that image.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    They keep referring to Banksy as "he." We don't know if Banksy is male or female though, correct?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    As far as I know that's correct, nobody knows who Bansky actually is.

    ... Is what I was going to say.

    What astoundingly serendipitous timing.

    https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-art-banksy/

    TL:DR

    First posted on the 13th, picked up by other media roughly 6 hours ago, Reuters released a special investigative report, and they believe Bansky is:

    ... are you sure? ...

    Robert Del Naja, the frontman of Massive Attack.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Small correction:

    SpoilerThey actually go on, in that Reuters article, to say it isn't Del Naja, but instead David Jones. The Del Naja bit is kind of a red herring. David Jones, formerly Robin Gunningham, as long suspected. The Wikipedia page has already been updated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy

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