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GRAFFITI IN THE NEWS -
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Graffiti
As 'Fine Art'
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PRANKSTER 'GETS UP' IN
NY MUSEUMS
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British graffiti writer "Banksy
"
recently
evaded tightest security and hung several of his 'works of art' in four of New York's
most
prestigious museums. All told,
Banksy
made his covert bequeathals to the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of
Modern Art
(MoMA), the Brooklyn Museum and the American Museum of Natural
History
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Banksy's own painting titled: "
Give Peace A Chance", which depicts a military officer holding
a
spray can
with
anti-war graffiti in the background, was clandestinely put on display at the Brooklyn
Museum,
going entirely unnoticed -at least by museum staff- for more than a week.
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Writer "
Banksy", who has never revealed his true identity, has laid claim to carrying
out these
four unique smuggling operations all within a single day, and all within normal museum
operating
hours. Some of the pieces went undetected for several days -
including
one
outrageous painting of a flying beetle with missiles strapped to it's
wings.
(Titled : "Hi-Tech Bug", he hung it, appropriately, amongst other pieces at the
Natural
History Museum's "Hall of Bio-diversity").
But Banksy
modestly allowed, "I decided to spare the Guggenhiem
(Museum).
I would have had to appear between two Picassos, and I'm not good enough to
get
away with
that." Asked how he was able to evade security checks, Banksy said he used a false beard and was assisted by friends
who
distracted
museum security staff. He assumed, correctly it seems, that,
"...they've
got
their eye a lot more on things leaving than things going in, which works in my favor."
Banksy
has staged similar 'covert ops' in the past, managing to spirit some of
his
works
into Britain's Tate Gallery and the Louvre in
France.
He
told Reuters news agency that his primary inspiration was his sister, who at an
earlier
juncture threw away several of his paintings, saying they would never hang in the world-
famous
Paris museum.
Although we are not
sure
the above
museum
sorties qualify as "graffiti" in the classic sense of the word (Banksy didn't actually deface anything), we do find the pranks
highly amusing.
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Another sample of Banksy
's less ambiguous outdoor graffiti excerpted from his website...
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- And now to
Bangkok's own brand of Graffiti....
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Graffiti #071
Virtual Disk
9 ft high x 25 ft
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Graffiti #072
Wild Rubber Duck
6 ft. high x 14 ft.
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Graffiti #073
Dark Star & Co.
5 ft. high x 16 ft.
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Graffiti #074
Bananasaur
6 ft. high x 7 ft.
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Graffiti #075
Down & Crazy
6 ft. high x 9 ft.
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Graffiti #076
P's & Q's
7 ft. high x 20 ft.
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Graffiti #077
Muskrat's Tongue
3 ft. high x 2 ft.
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(The above photo is not a graffiti per-se, although there are those who have insinuated....)
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