I have enormous faith in Banksy’s accountants’ lawyers’ lawyers’ accountants’ lawyers to find ways to bury this in so many nested layers of trusts and corporations and offshore doohickeys that no single person would ever be able to trace it back to him.
Meanwhile the guy from Massive Attack is buying another island with the proceeds from his “investment portfolio.”
so you still beleive in a singular banksy? always thought satoshi was at least a trinity…
Oh no, I’m definitely just one person.
EDIT: I mean, he’s just one person. I’m not Banksy! Ha ha! Don’t be absurd!
maybe if you stepped outside the lamestream media you’d know the TRUTH
Edit: since this post is getting a lot of interaction I’d like to share my sincere take: Banksy is a collective and I sincerely believe the “leader” might not be male. I won’t speculate further or link to why out of respect for the art.
The same thing happened with Ansel Adams work, which sold for tens of thousands per print at auction. Mostly he got $200-500 for each one.
Who knows?
Probably, but not because of this. Baksy wasn’t the seller.
Cassius M. Coolidge’s work is woefully underrated. You’d almost think critics don’t have a sense of humor. My fav’s “A Friend in Need”.
Art that finds popular appeal is quickly dismissed by “real” critics who focus on fine arts. This was challenged to a degree by Andy Warhol and others during the pop art movement. I think modern critics now have a broader idea of what is art than Coolidge’s contemperaries.
Shout out to all the street artists out there fighting the good fight, without such a payout. Hope these funds return there and to us all
Norman Rockwell is a handy punching bag for art critics who need an example of “whitebread pablum fake art” etc, but the man was an extraordinarily talented draftsman and visual artist who supported the civil rights movement long before it was mainstream to do so.
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