Friday, June 5, 2009

If you are not a follower of the current art scene, you might think this is a clever bit of graffiti about the weather we're having in New York. And you're right, it is clever and graffiti reflecting how rainy it is here. But it is also, I believe, since it's not signed, from a three part series of men with umbrellas that were painted along a wall off Bleecker Street by the anonymous Banksy. They were done at the same time he/she painted an enormous rat on the side of a building on Houston that got a great deal of insider attention until it was painted over with an ad for a jewelry store a week later. Commerce trumps Art once again.

7 comments:

  1. This strikes me as very Hitchcock-esque. Put me in mind of him immediately. Thanks for sharing. :)

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  2. I really should say, c'est la guerre.

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  3. Oh I like it and its a damn shame commerce trumps anything of value.

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  4. The problem with Banksy is that he has lost control of his art - every gallery and flea market in London is selling the Banksy Brand - it's a pity since he appears to have lost his subversive appeal by becoming ubiquitous..

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  5. They painted over an enormous rat? Humph! Beans (human beings) just don't know good subject matter when they see it.

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  6. http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=31414
    FYI RE Banksy.

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