Mr BW is wack, badly ripping off the subjects & styles of others. Capping his work is a confrontation, a ‘step up or f*ck off’ message. Nobody likes taggers coming into their neighbourhood & fucking shit up. The same goes for f*ckwits like Mr BW, he can do album covers, work on canvas but he’s only really welcome in hipster areas.

Besides. this ‘recognised street art community’ you speak of sounds hideously elitist to me. Maybe this tight knit inner circle you mention have a vested interest in acting the gatekeepers of the increasingly dull and stagnant ‘urban art’ scene, and therefore resent MBW’s financial success and also the way he has (perhaps unwittingly) blatantly exposed the dirty little secret which underpins the whole genre…that people will buy into any old shit if it’s hyped enough.

I thought street art was meant to be about breaking down barriers and open to anyone, but it seems like a hierarchical establishment has once again been created, with experts, influential cliques, critics, etc. It’s rapidly become just another dull, staid and bloated offshoot of the mainstream contemporary art world.

Perhaps MBW didn’t collude enough with the so called intellectuals who like to set themselves up as the arbiters of taste, and so has incurred their wrath and exclusion. I’ve never personally been a fan of MBW, but I must admit I’m warming to him now if he’s managed to piss off the sneering middle-class po-faced architects of cultural apartheid who seem to think they can dictate the very narrow self-serving conventions of their boring cabal onto everybody else.

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