Several news outlets covered the stunt, including The Guardian, BBC, The Telegraph, Mashable and more. So I regret to announce this ill-conceived and legally dubious promotion has now been cancelled." The post received more than 28,000 likes within 18 hours.
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I have been warned by the Electoral Commission that the free print offer will invalidate the election result. Two days later, on June 5th, Banksy posted a followup message (shown below), retracting his earlier offer. The post, within three days, has received more than 30,000 likes. To receive the free print by mail, a registered voter in those areas has to send a picture of the voting paper to Banksy. Terms and conditions to follow, postage not included." The post also contained a lawyer's note, which read, "This print is a souvenir piece of campaign material, it is in no way meant to influence the choices of the electorate, has no monetary value, is for amusement purposes only and is strictly not for resale. On June 3rd, 2017, Banksy posted a message to his Instagram account (shown below), offering a free, limited edition print to anyone in Bristol North West, Bristol West, North Somerset, Thornbury, Kingswood and Filton constituencies who vote against the Conservative incumbent in the 2017 United Kingdom General Election on June 8th. The daylong stunt was captured on footage with a hidden camera and uploaded later that same day via his YouTube channel, where it accumulated more than 2 million views in the first 24 hours. On October 13th, Banksy opened up an unmarked stall near Central Park in Manhattan and put an elderly man in charge of selling some of his original stencils for a price as low as $60, a steep bargain from the usual five to six-figures price tags in art auctions. also noted that the artwork was being guarded by a group of men who were trying to charge sightseers as much as $20 per viewing. On October 10th, Instagram user uploaded several photographs of a Banksy rat stencil-painted on a wall next to a fallen parking sign in East New York, Brooklyn. In the first 24 hours, the video garnered upwards of 1.8 million views and the Reddit post received more than 12,400 up votes. The same day, Redditor NSFW_PORN_ONLY submitted the video to the /r/videos subreddit. On October 6th, Banksy uploaded a video to YouTube featuring the Disney cartoon character Dumbo being shot down by by Syrian rebels with a rocket propelled grenade (shown below). The same day, the banksyny Instagram feed was launched, featuring photographs of Banksy's NYC street art. On October 1st, the Twitter feed was created, which gathered upwards of 14,000 followers in the first week. On September 28th, 2013, Banksy launched the website Banksy NY to highlight works created during his October visit to New York City (NYC). Some of his most widely recognized artworks include the gorilla with the pink mask (2001), the girl with the red balloon (2002), the Molotov bouquet thrower (2002), the murals on the Israeli-Palestinian barrier (2005 – 2007), the vandalized phone booth (2005) and the street maid (2006) among many others. In the following years, Banksy's stencil art works began appearing in galleries, including a controversial exhibit titled "Turf War" held at a warehouse in east London featuring spray painted animals (shown below). On March 4th, 2000, Banksy's official website .uk was launched. At the turn of the century, the street artist transitioned from freehand graffiti to the medium of stencil, which ultimately gave rise to his international prominence.
Online HistoryĪccording to biographical sources, Banksy emerged as a freehand graffiti artist in Bristol, England during the early 1990s, working in collaboration with numerous other local artists. Politics, satire, england, britain, british, graffiti, street art, artist, exhibitionīanksy is the pseudonym of an English street artist, painter and filmmaker known for his satirical and politically motivated works in contemporary visual arts.
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