Banksygate 2008: The Natives Respond

you know that moment where someone goes so far that the whole place just kind of feels embarrassed for them, avoids eye contact, and acts really interested in their drinks?

I think we just had that moment.

@Rfive when you are done wiping your boyfriend's sperm off of your eyes, please look at the picture again. it sucks-it will always suck and this dickwad community sucks too.

katsu (or ???) is approaching clever and collaborative, and the piece is really nice - looks like a giant lithograph

something hit home whitecastle?

a commissioned painting promotes vandalism just as much as a book on islam promotes jihad. these pieces, if they were executed by colossal, are respected paintings by a world respected artist. if you don't know that, then you are the asshole who obviously is uneducated.

look @ the other pieces by colossal in the neighborhood. are they "tagged"? this piece probably will be because that is a part of the community that banksy exists in. he's expecting a hit by katsu, i'm sure. its not your world though; he wouldn't be caught dead consorting with a douche like you.

roll over and let matty hit it again!

@rfive what the fuck is with the the fucking threesome comment? this shit promotes vandalism you idiot-did you notice the graffiti on top of this masterpiece? Your fucking slang is a dead giveaway that you are a uneducated idiot. This "art" as you call it sucks. Pottery Barn ads don't encourage your fucking heroes to tag away. Again, go fuck yourself and this "genre". yeah it is dope, fresh, hip, cool, yeah let me sniff it man-yeah word....

asshole

hehe i'm lovin' it.

shoutout to the real bombers out there.

I'm still waiting for katsu to hit these with his extinguishers. thats what the genre is all about and banksy, the fuckin foreigner that he is, will get covered. the work is still dope. step back, pull your head out of your ass, and take a good look.

stupid haters. its not vandalism if you are paying for the space. its called success. sniff it. or smoke it. it tastes the same.

shut the fuck up sue and go back to your threesome with with whitecastle and matty (trading off with snoopy!).

lee quinones IS a man and a great artist. guess what? his moms was WRONG!!! Lee's got a dope style and will be remembered as a trailblazer in the NYC art scene.

Rat eat rat.

for those who know only about their particular milieu of "art", and can only understand "urban" knowledge---here's something to reflect on: in the first scene of "wild style" where lee quinones gets told by his brother "it;s time to grow up, get a job and be a f***ing man"- almost thirty years later, the same holds true.

also, these pieces are not so much banksy (cynical but easy to get though at least clever, unlike the mindless one liners of giant and his followrs) as commercial crap based on banksy's rats.

I hate pottery barn too! I am such a curmudgeon. I am sorry-guess I am cranky today

@whitecastlerock -- ok, me and the crayons, it is. I'm gonna draw a pottery barn ad!

@everyAFrame I was born and raised in Manhattan. I don't fear any asshole who needs to draw on walls to "express" themselves. So you need to ease up on the tough guy talk and go back to drawing on walls with your crayolas okay?

Sound like a lot of people here would rather have some homoerotic abercrombie ads instead.

I like the rats.

And, yes, Banksy, Katsu, yr welcome in my house. as a matter of fact, get here before we paint the living room :)

@whitecastlerock, settle down, no big bad graffiti vandals are gonna hurt you and you'll still be able to get PinkBerry and tartinis just like they promised you in Kansas.

it is an urban Renaissance! Hooray! Vandals and criminals everywhere party @everyAframe's house!

It's a regular Monet versus Manet situation aint it?

Graffiti is vandalism? I rather think the Adidas store and the rest of the dreck what has been built along Houston from W. Broadway to about Ludlowis teh REAL vandalism of NYC. If you want clean buildings, you can move back to Portland or wherever your "adventure" started, dotcom cash.

This is New York City...finally, once again!

He was arrested last year I believe matty:

http://gothamist.com/2007/06/26/the_splasher_sp.php

I don't like the whole street art comissioning thing.. it's just not the same

that's what i love about graffiti. uncensored interaction.

if it were real social commentary, he wouldn't have to be commissioned to do it.

Also whatever happened to the "splasher"??? I loved that guy. He pissed off all the "street artists" so badly. haha.

#9 Agreed

Banksy has co-opted new york graffitti culture and made millions off of it. Where did his money come from? That's right, Rats, who were probably "eating crack" to buy one of his paintings.

I don't mind this piece. I think it speaks to current events. Clear social comment. It depicts exactly what is happening in the economy. Its real graffiti. Refreshing in that respect.

wait, you mean that banksy's piece was subject to the same treatment that most new york graffiti gets and has been getting for years? you don't say.

word to the comment about the people moving here from bum feck.......so sick of the losers who have no clue what NYC was. Hey, where is alphabet city? Where is Hell's Kitchen? "Oh Im from Nebraska. Where is that? Is it in NY?"

Or how about the lastest ones??? SoBro? Hudson Hts?? If you just moved here you know where those neighborhoods are but if you lived here your whole life you would no clue!!!

I LOVE NYC!!!!

Graffiti = VANDALISM. Paint on a canvas, please.

Funny, how much will Banksy make from these billboards and upcoming show? Why drain that "rat race" theme out when all you're doing yourself is making money from the art, just a little ironic.

you can't see it from the angle above, but to the right of the "damn rats" piece it says "to all the real night creatures!!" my guess is the piece is by katsu, who is responding to banksy going over his spray paint tag. if you look closely, you can see that collosal media put a little "peace katsu" sign to the left of the piece-- perhaps in an attempt to mollify him.

To some people who moved here from god knows where this must be cutting edge. To me, this looks like shit found on the side of abandoned buildings on Walton Avenue circa 1975. To think someone commissioned to have this piece of shit painted plastered on their building is laughable. I am not jealous, rather I am disgusted by the sheer stupidity of it all. Let's encourage vandalism...

HAyTahZZ

like just about all of banksy images - its great looking. I love it.

i may be wrong, but wasn't banksy commissioned to do these by the owners of the ad space? better this than an ad.

but !!!damn rats? that's just pathetic.

jealous much?

Fuck Banksy and the scumbag vandals who need to tag buildings.

Something about Banksy's pieces being bombed makes me very happy.