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”
