Secret artist man

Banksy does LA, and the NY Times is on the story. You may recall Banksy's various pranks over the years, including sneaking some of his own works into major New York City museums last year -- most not being noticed by museum guards or officials for some time. Now he has an exhibition up in Los Angeles, though he still hasn't broken anonymity.

As a metaphor for problems that people are uncomfortable talking about, “the elephant in the room” is not the most original.

But then, few people actually put the elephant in the room, paint it red and adorn it with gold fleurs-de-lis to match the brocade wallpaper, and then dare viewers not to talk about it.

“1.7 billion people have no access to clean drinking water. 20 billion people live below the poverty line. Every day hundreds of people are made to feel physically sick by morons at art shows telling them how bad the world is but never actually doing something about it. Anybody want a free glass of wine?”

Posted by David on September 17, 2006 10:02 AM