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Daily Mail Desperation

The Daily Mail seems to be grasping at straws with this latest attempt to discover Banksy’s identity. In an article from yesterday’s edition, The Daily Mail tried to once again prove they were correct last year when they announced Banksy’s identity is “Robin Gunningham” by saying that a recent stencil may be a self-portrait by Banksy.

Not Banksy

As the photographer, unusualimage, notes in the title of his photo though, this stencil was almost certainly not done by Banksy. This rat motif has been abandoned by Banksy for a while not, and this exact stencil has been used before (with different images on the rat’s sign) by the Not Banksy group. So who know, maybe the Daily Mail got it right when they identified Banksy, but this definitely isn’t the “self-portrait” they claim it could be.

Photo by unusualimage

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Off To My Vacation in Cairo

Photo by mediageek
Photo by mediageek

I am headed to Cairo in a couple of hours for a family vacation and then to the states to visit a few universities, so I expect have only limited internet access for the next week and a half or so. I’ll get in a couple of updates in that time (including 2-3 interviews), but they will probably come in spurts and I definitely won’t be posting daily.

One place I’ll be headed is New York City. I’m going to be looking for things to see there (art and otherwise), so if you have any suggestions please email me – rj(at)vandalog(dot)com.

In the mean time, here’s a few things I’ve been meaning to post:

  • Boxi’s show at The Carmichael Gallery is going to have a cool print release to go along with it, and part of the edition will go onto eBay as soon as the show opens. ‘Sell Out Is The New Buy In’ is a print about the state of the current art market, so why not put it on eBay?
  • Not Banksy has been putting out some interesting work.
  • So have the guys in Tel Aviv.
  • And Gaia’s latest stuff is pretty cool (though I can’t get this video of his to play all the way through).
  • Urban Angel’s show 2000 and Down opened today.
  • Finally, these are two shows I will definitely be stopping by when I am in New York: Phil Forst and PosterBoy.

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