Nothing is so current as something that is ongoing. 
Elusive graffiti artist Banksy is on his final two weeks of his month-long residency in New York.
So far he has defaced property expressed himself through spray paint art, created a fibreglass replica of Ronald McDonald having his shoes shined by a real live boy, made people question the worth of his art (art is war on the human brain), and most recently made a 1/36 scale replica of the great Sphinx of Giza from smashed cinderblocks.
Reporters have tried to get the whole scoop on Banksy, but as one informat said in an email to a reporter , “they don’t call him BANKsy for nothing.”
The most we have heard from Banksy (in addition to his daily updates on his website) is that Village Voice had an exclusive interview with him.
I love the Bloomberg-Banksy talk.
I love even more how much people prize his work. So much that they will bar it up.
In the end, nothing tops the fact that Banksy set up an impromptu stand on the streets of NYC to sell his authentic art for $60 a piece and only managed to sell eight pieces. Then, less than a week later, artists Dave Cicirelli and Lance Pilgrim mimicked the exact tactic and stand set-up with a twist – they marked the art as fake and even provided Certificate of Inauthenticity with each purchase.
The stand sold out in less than an hour.
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