New Yorkers Are Calling Out Banksy
by Nina Strochlic
The Daily Beast
October 18, 2013
Mayor Bloomberg and the NYPD, an anonymous New York artist”™s collective, and a community of graffiti writers make strange bedfellows. But the disparate groups have one thing in common: they”™re calling out beloved street artist Banksy as he prowls New York City on a 30-day tagging quest.
Steve (not his real name) is the founder of TrustoCorp, an anonymous New York-based guerilla art group known for its subversive signs and other pieces meant to highlight “the hilarity and hypocrisy of human behavior.”
And that”™s just what he set out to do on Monday, when he installed two street signs in New York City pointing out the irony of Banksy as a world-famous multimillionaire maintaining the persona of a rebellious street artist. Each sign cited a parody sponsor by “CitiBanksy” and “Banksy of America,” and featured twists on the elusive tagger’s own work. Continue reading “Calling Out Banksy”