Museums Now Thrilled to Welcome Banksy

Hello, it's a big new art show by zillionaire street artist Banksy, an artist who does not suck—his first show since his crazy robot monkey show in NYC last year. Let's look, shall we?

3:03 PM on Fri Jun 12 2009, by Hamilton Nolan, 0 views, 30 comments
http://gawker.com/5288653/museums-now-thrilled-to-welcome-banksy/gallery/

Shadowy Group of Chavs Out to Destroy Banksy

In 2007, NYC had "The Splasher," an anonymous pseudo-intellectual prick who went around defacing street art. Now England has its own pricks who've decided to deface Banksy murals. Unless it's an elaborate hoax.

10:42 AM on Wed Apr 8 2009, by Hamilton Nolan, 0 views, 18 comments
http://gawker.com/5203612/shadowy-group-of-chavs-out-to-destroy-banksy

NYC's War on Vandalism Must End If We Are to Have Good Vandalism

War on art! A famous Japanese pop artist was doing just a little bit of vandalism down in the subways, and was arrested. Why doesn't Mayor Bloomberg just let people draw in the streets?

9:28 AM on Wed Mar 11 2009, by Hamilton Nolan, 0 views, 27 comments
http://gawker.com/5167959/nycs-war-on-vandalism-must-end-if-we-are-to-have-good-vandalism

Poster Boy Is a Tough Biatch

Now that NYC's most famous subway ad remixer Poster Boy got himself arrested, he's more famous than ever! We hear the NYT is even planning a story on him. For us it's about the art.

1:23 PM on Tue Feb 3 2009, by Hamilton Nolan, 0 views, 32 comments
http://gawker.com/5145439/poster-boy-is-a-tough-biatch/gallery/

Meet The Real Neckface

Neckface is a famous street artist—not quite Banksy famous, but almost. And like Banksy, Neckface has always kept his face hidden, even though he's been profiled in the New Yorker and he has a shoe deal with VANS that includes billboards...

4:41 PM on Wed Dec 10 2008, by Hamilton Nolan, 0 views, 62 comments
http://gawker.com/5106879/meet-the-real-neckface

"not banksy! it's kuszyk"

Well then: the mysterious hooded and bearded man photographed supervising the painting of a new Banksy mural yesterday is not Banksy; it's Williamsburg artist R. Nicholas Kuszyk! As he informed us just now in an email with the intriguing subject...

4:55 PM on Thu Oct 9 2008, by Hamilton Nolan, 0 views, 17 comments
http://gawker.com/5061326/not-banksy-its-kuszyk

Banksy's Strange NYC Show: Robot Food

Semi-anonymous street art star and obsession of ours Banksy is opening his first official show in New York. Huzzah! And man I gotta tell you, it's weird. "Bizarre animatronic displays packed in a tiny downtown storefront" weird. All those rat...

10:25 AM on Thu Oct 9 2008, by Hamilton Nolan, 0 views, 29 comments
http://gawker.com/5061010/banksys-strange-nyc-show-robot-food

The Rat Finale

A picture of the completed version of Banksy's "Let Them Eat Crack" rat mural has been added to our earlier post. Now we can move on.

2:09 PM on Thu Oct 2 2008, by Hamilton Nolan, 0 views, 4 comments
http://gawker.com/5058201/the-rat-finale

Bigger Rats

Click through for two new big photos of the almost-completed Banksy rat mural at Howard and Broadway in downtown NYC. One tipster says "They have traced out letters above and below the platform that will soon say 'let them eat crack'!" Lovely.

11:19 AM on Thu Oct 2 2008, by Hamilton Nolan, 0 views, 37 comments
http://gawker.com/5058065/bigger-rats