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Who could have seen this coming (lemmy.zip)
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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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/

"We’ve been Banksy-ed," Alex Branczik, Sotheby’s head of European Contemporary art said in a press conference after the incident. “I’ll be quite honest, we have not experienced this situation in the past, where a painting is spontaneously shredded upon achieving a record for the artist.”

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.

[–] Woolu@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They keep referring to Banksy as "he." We don't know if Banksy is male or female though, correct?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

~~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.

[–] Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Small correction:

SpoilerThey 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/Banksy

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm going to go with 'Aha! I did an intentional misdirect!'

... yep. Mhm.

(cough)

derp

[–] Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

The article was fun to read, so I fully accept that explanation! ;P