Banksy
Banksy’s spoof video of Syrian rebels gets panned by a Middle East satirist
When British artist Banksy does something, people take notice. The unidentified and mysterious graffiti artist has posted a film online that spoofs Syrian rebels and shows them accidentally killing Dumbo the Elephant. The video’s gone viral and has generated a lot of reaction in the Twittersphere.
‘The Man Behind the Wall’: The Mystery of Banksy
The Oscar-nominated documentary “Exit Through the Gift Shop” introduced the world to Banksy and his modern street art, but most of us know next to nothing about the artist, famous for concealing his identity at all costs. Will Ellsworth-Jones set out to reveal as much as possible about the graffiti artist in his new biography […]
Japan’s Banksy
At first no one noticed them, the visual footnotes created by Japan’s version of Banksy. The artists – for they are six, not one – go by the name Chimâ??Pom. This had been one of the recent works by the shock-art collective. They discretely painted burned-out nuclear power plants over an existing mural at Tokyo’s […]