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Today, the European Network Against Racism (ENAR), a self-described “voice of the anti-racist movement in Europe,” released a statement titled, “Is art becoming the ultimate refuge of racism in Sweden and Denmark?”
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Last week, the controversial production “Exhibit B” was canceled by the City of London’s Barbican Centre, which issued a statement decrying the “profoundly troubling” protests that “silence artists and performers.” A few days later, the production’s creator, Brett Bailey, put on his purple-tinted glasses and beret to appear in the Guardian‘s editorial section, where he bemoaned his fate
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Citing “the extreme nature of the protest and the serious threat to the safety of performers, audiences and staff,” the Barbican in London has canceled its production of South African director Brett Bailey’s controversial installation “Exhibit B.”
(via Sentenced: Swedish Artist Dan Park “Incited Against an Ethnic Group”)
The imprisonment of artists and the shutting down of galleries by government agents are incidents we associate with North Korea, Cuba, and Saudi Arabia, not a progressive Scandinavian democracy. And yet, in July of this year, an exhibition of the Swedish street artist Dan Park’s collages at the Rönnquist og Rönnquist gallery in Malmö was shut down by Swedish police for violating the racism paragraph of Swedish law.
Banksy Tags the South Bronx, Catching Up with Weekend Banksys
Today’s Banksy in the South Bronx (via banksy.co.uk)
Today’s Banksy is up in the South Bronx. This…
An oldie but a goodie. A Banksy work spoofing Damien Hirst’s dot paintings during the Banksy Versus Bristol Museum Summer Show in 2009.
Are we sure they’re not the same person? Hmmm…
UPDATE: The work was a COLLABORATION between Banksy and Hirst.
Banksy Takes Aim at Fastfood Giant, Tribeca Banksy Becomes Memorial
An image of the new All City Banksy (via banksy.co.uk)
A new — and yet another traveling — Banksy…
Today, it was officially announced that British artist Banksy has constructed a dystopian riff on Disneyland in a derelict seaside resort in Weston-super-Mare, England. Called Dismaland, the ambitious five-week project is sure to attract visitors eager for the artist’s brand of viral culture jamming and populist humor, but there’s a twist. Most of the art on display at Dismaland is not by Banksy — though he has contributed 10 new works — but by 58 artists invited to participate, including blue-chip names Damien Hirst, Jenny Holzer, and David Shrigley, and popular artists associated with street art like Espo, Escif, Bäst, and El Teneen. The scale of the project is impressive.
Banksy’s New Apocalyptic Theme Park Is Designed to Disappoint
Corporate Media Fictions: Brad Downey and Banksy Just over two weeks ago, a story about an excavated Banksy in Berlin ricocheted across the global media. Most of the coverage featured closely cropped smiley faced riot police and the name “Banksy” screamed in the media coverage. From the tone of the coverage and the emphasis on the discovery of a lost Banksy most people probably assumed it was another case of an opportunist commercial gallery swiping a street art work and displaying it in order to make a potential profit. What many people — and news outlets — didn’t realize was that the glimpse of the Banksy was only part of a much larger work by artist Brad Downey. READ MORE
New Banksys Pop Up as Old Ones Are Freshened Up
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It’s another day, and another Banksy in New York, as the secretive street…
New Banksy Works Pop Up in Greenpoint Overnight
Last night, three works by the infamous British street artist Banksy showed up in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and the city’s street art scene have been clamoring to understand the meaning of these “sad clowns” that are spread around the north Brooklyn neighborhood.