I freely admit being relatively ignorant when it comes to art, but even I would have recognised those as being Banksy pieces....and then I would have assumed that they were prints or replicas or whatever and kept walking.

Well, some dude wanting to decorate his Chicago flat just scored his two kid's college education fund....Whatever you wanna say about Banksy now, I just don't know. He's got Mayor Bloomblerghh's endorsement for public nuisance.

Yeah Id say this is confusing because I would walk by this and think surely Banksy didn't actually make these surely they are just copies.

Although i enjoy most Banksy art, these don't appeal to me in comparison to his other stuff. That being said I'm sure i'd buy them for $60 a pop if they were offered to me.

Man, I hate Banksy. Some of the laziest, pseudo-profound crap you'll ever see.

Stuffed Animal Slaughterhouse Truck - Banksy has been added as a related post - related requested by eric3579 on that post.

Rebel Rocket Attack - Banksy has been added as a related post - related requested by eric3579.

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Must be a Banksy fan...

"Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours, it belongs to you. It's yours to take, rearrange and reuse. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head"

Graffiti art has been big here since Katrina. It also has been controversial. There was a ANTI-graffiti vigilante, The Gray Ghost, who painted out graffiti around the city. He made the mistake of painting over a legitimate mural.

http://www.bestofneworleans.com/blogofneworleans/archives/2011/08/04/vigilante-vigilante-the-gray-ghost-speaks

He and Banksy got into it.

http://weburbanist.com/2010/09/11/banksy-vs-the-gray-ghost-in-new-orleans/

Found another source, should be working now.

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OK, so I remember a discussion that was had in one of my art history courses on modern art (a few years back) while I was attending the Emily Carr University of Art & Design

The value of art. Years ago during the depression, rich people, like the Rothschilds and such had so much money, they didn't know what to do with it. They began to invest in art, buying up all the famous pieces they could. It became a famous pass-time of the rich to buy art and flaunt it around. But the investors didn't just flaunt it, they sold it.

Now, these guys were profiteers as we all know, and so were all the players that surrounded the art world. These guys looked at art as an investment, always trading up and selling for more than they paid. Art was (and still is) a commodity.

Of course with any gold-rush industry, an industry is born around that commodity and art galleries sprung up everywhere. Art was all the rage. Gallery owners and promoters, traveling shows, salesmen, pretentious buyers and all those people that wanted to be part of the In-crowd, the inner-court, as it was, were frantic to be the next best thing.

Flash forward into the eighties. Break Dancing, Rap music, Graffiti and Street gangsters and the sub-culture that goes along with it was on the rise. Gallery curators were looking for the next "big thing". Someone noticed Banksy and brought him into the gallery. (I used to have the article on how it happened, I no longer do). They put up the "great works of Banksy. They brought the street/graffiti artist off the street and billed him as the new Commodity. They invested in him and promoted him. Every one in the In-crowd bought into him and his works sold for copious amounts of money.

Then the problem arose that the "King wasn't wearing any cloths." That's right, everyone started to realize that the art was crap, simply tagging brought in off the street and hung on the gallery walls.

Only it was too late because the BIG investors who sink their cash into these commodity/investments never allow themselves to loose money. They were duped and no one wanted to admit it.

So what did they do? Well like any King Pin that controls the markets, They ignore the mistake, threw a spin on it and pretend it didn't happen, No one want's to admit they spent $200,000 on a piece of CRAP. (or more, I don't remember the dollar amounts - and I'm sure it was quite a bit more, into the millions - I just don't have those facts handy, so I'm going with six-figures.)

So to this day, Banksy is still creating art, his works are still worth money (only because they say it is), and next to impossible to sell. The fame remains because Banksy's biggest contribution to the art world was to buy with caution, it's not a good commodity just because the art world jumps on it as the flavour of the day. Many investors lost a lot of money on his works and the art buying world got a slap in the face.

This was one piece for an art exhibit. The exhibit was put up by Banksy, a British street artist. His installment art was a Pet store called ‘The Village Pet Shop and Charcoal Grill’. It looked like a regular pet store until you got inside.

http://videosift.com/video/Banksys-Village-Petstore-and-Charcoal-Grill

Also try this site: http://thevillagepetstoreandcharcoalgrill.com/menu.html

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Yep, hit the nail on the head there.

Let's make a movie out of it!! Hur hur dur!

There are several tags made on top of the original Robbo's piece. That didn't cause such a fuss, so why would it be a problem when someone famous does it?

Anyways, I'm gonna go out on a limb and propose a theory. Perhaps maybe Robbo did meet some person who claimed themselves to be Banksy, and maybe he did slap that kid. And maybe just perhaps Robbo is a very naive person and believes anybody to be exactly what they claim to be.

And just maybe that banksy he has met, was not the real banksy, and maybe Robbo doesn't really want to fact check, maybe because he probably has been out of the street graffiti loop for so long that he doesn't know who to contact to find out for sure.

So maybe him and his friends, who are all out of the loop, is just sticking with robbo's side of the story without fact checking, and maybe is creating this whole hype over some sort of graffiti war.

Just to top it all off, maybe the issued painting under the bridge was painted over long before all this hype (as the photos suggest of its last condition of Robbo's work, which was graffitied over by many other random tags), and it's being made an issue only after the alleged claim from King Robbo.

It is just a maybe though, just maybe.

The problem is that both Banksy and King Robbo operate under anonymity, which leaves a lot of things unorganized and unruly. Anybody can start claiming to be them without any kind of proof as long as they can mimic the original artist's style well, and nobody could tell the difference or know who exactly did what. Even for 'Team Robbo', this is just a collective mass, and anybody can start claiming themselves to be Team Robbo, and start putting up work under its name. So why can't this be the scenario for Banksy's work as well? Seeing there are lot of imitators out there.

I mean this is England, lot of dumb wankers out there. These are the same young people who just recently trashed their own neighborhoods because they were bored and riots felt exciting. You can see the immaturity of these gang's minds by calling Banksy a 'la rat'. It's a negative connotation because it's French, and French is bad because French are pussies, etc etc, that sort of typical immature insult which all English hooligans and lower classmen love to use. And to think, Robbo must be in his 30s, and yet he's still caught in this mess. He allowed himself to be caught in this silly feud that's been created by young teenagers of London. Jeez.