Bansky

The New Yorker magazine has a great bio on my favorite british grafitti artist Bansky.

"Even on Banksy’s home turf, it’s hard to know what to look for, or where to look. For many of his admirers, that’s the fun of it: scouring a city for him or his art works, invests a potentially monotonous activity with the possibility of discovery."

"Graffiti afficionados like to say that the [art] form is as ancient as cave drawing, and Banksy takes a similarly romantic view. “Imagine a city where graffiti wasn’t illegal, a city where everybody could draw wherever they liked,” he once wrote. “Where the street was awash with a million colors and little phrases. . . . A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited, not just the estate agents and barons of big business.” Detractors of graffiti, however, can trace its spread as assiduously as epidemiologists mapping an outbreak of diphtheria. "