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Art is money laundering for the rich.
It all make sense now, doesn't it?
Throw back to Banksy setting a trap in 2006, and springing it 12 years later:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/watch-14-million-bansky-painting-shred-itself-soon-it-sold-180970486/
Now that... that's fuckin' art right there.
I love the rest of the article entirely missing the point of Banksy doing that being a surprise.
There, you idiots, frame that image.
They keep referring to Banksy as "he." We don't know if Banksy is male or female though, correct?
~~As far as I know that's correct, nobody knows who Bansky actually is.~~
... Is what I was going to say.
What astoundingly serendipitous timing.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-art-banksy/
TL:DR
First posted on the 13th, picked up by other media roughl 6 hours ago, Reuters released a special investigative report, and they believe Bansky is:
... are you sure? ...
Robert Del Naja, the frontman of Massive Attack.
Small correction:
Spoiler
They actually go on, in that Reuters article, to say it isn't Del Naja, but instead David Jones. The Del Naja bit is kind of a red herring. David Jones, formerly Robin Gunningham, as long suspected. The Wikipedia page has already been updated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BanksyI'm going to go with 'Aha! I did an intentional misdirect!'
... yep. Mhm.
(cough)
derp
The article was fun to read, so I fully accept that explanation! ;P
So how is he laundering money now with it?
This fake art for sure, and so much that people start to think monetary value is what is important in art.
There was an experiment where someone set up a high class shoe store in a nice location. They took cheap shoes from discount stores and marked them way up and put them on some nice display racks. People bought them.
Expensive = good...to some people.
Genius! When they come back to complain about the craftsmanship or return them, the place will have never existed.
Checkmate, bourgeoise. XD