#banksyesque

[orchidblack]

Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij's The OA stands as one of the more fascinating artifacts from the anything-goes era of Netflix-- an unfettered, deeply personal vision that somehow exists in superposition between love it or hate it. Their new Hulu series, A Murder at the End of the World, isn't as bugnuts, but after two episodes I'm totally on board. The show is a cyberpunk-tinged whodunnit that feels equally inspired by Agatha Christie, William Gibson, Stieg Larsson, and Alex Garland. Marling has half-jokingly mentioned Carmen Sandiego as an unconscious influence, but the vibe is far closer to the games of Hideo Kojima. Most of the action unfolds in a high-tech Icelandic compound straight out of Death Stranding, haunted by mysterious masked figures and AI holograms. As with Kojima, subtlety is in short supply-- the needle drops are defiantly dorky, the characters broadly archetypal (a Banksyesque artist critical of Silicon Valley goes by the moniker FANGS), and the ideas and emotions unabashedly big. If you like your gothic techno-dystopias with an undercurrent of aching sincerity, new episodes out Tuesdays.

[ericrobertnolan]

Roanoke, VA, July 2021

Roanoke, VA, July 2021

Elmwood Park. Sorry about the shaky cam. And my cellphone camera is obviously not high quality. Fountain beside Hampton Inn & Suite (facing Church Avenue): Looking north up Market Street: The Roanoke Times: A Banksyesque painting in front of Wok-ology on the corner of Campbell Avenue and Jefferson Street.  

[gabriellabowden]

tbh some of these anons sound pathetically jealous and bitter as hell

i really don’t mind, i think there is some validity to the complaint that my work is boring/meaningless, and this is going to sound like i’m deliberately undermining myself but hear me out: My brand of realism, and the way I typically execute it is particularly limited, and if i was attempting to offer up some kind of profound truth or statement with my work, then i would fail, indubitably. if i had hopes that my paintings were going to touch on the human condition or wreak some kind of change, politically or emotionally, then i would be deeply disappointed in myself. but i don’t harbour those aspirations, not with my paintings. being alive is difficult, and everybody has a different form of catharsis, and mine is painting, because it fulfils that need to do something delicately and with care. living is a solemn affair when you are young and care about the people close to you, and what better way to express that care and closeness than to paint them. and if you can make a living from that outlet, then it’s wonderful, if not, then it remains a pastime. painting is an occupation while i am studying and need income, but one day it will just be a pastime. and honestly when i write, that is my window to talk about insight and vulnerability and the things that universally plague us. but if i tried to paint about these things, keeping in mind the limitations of realist painting, i’d probably be making Banksyesque work, and we don’t need anymore heavy handed quasi-political art. i think there are better artists on here, artists who find wonderful ways to express the way in which they exist and the dissonance that surrounds them, and i don’t wish to detract attention from them. so i understand why someone would want to attack what i do, because i attack it for the very same reasons, and hopefully this can clarify it a little because it’s a valid observation that deserves a response.

[poe-hall]

Bass Rock, the silhouette of Tantallon Castle & a bonus Banksyesque in North Berwick. #bassrock #northberwick #eastlothian #travel #birds #gannets #wildlife #nature #coast #firthofforth #scotland #wanderlust #sea (at Bass Rock) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVXuS1zqbnC/?utm_medium=tumblr

[thedurvin]

What do y’all think, is putting a George Washington head on a 2L soda bottle half-full of marbles wearing a gold dollar-sign medallion and an abacus a little much? Too on-the-nose, a little Banksyesque?

Would it help if it was surrounded by all this

Procession of pilgrims bringing offerings of plastic hunks to the temples in exchange for bottle caps

[lafootballleague]

Planet of the Apes poster trying to be Banksyesque? @apesmovies @banksy #movie #cinema #art #culture #pop #streetart #rebel #wheatpaste #poster #propaganda #marketing #banksy #ape

[kyrstin]

if mtl street art had alignments, the chihuly sun at the musée and the urban forest ribbon trees downtown would be Good and the starbucks-drinking laptop kid outside mcgill would be Evil

[darwinplanet]

Banksy or just Banksyesque? #art #artwork #graffitti #streetart #travel #travelgram #instatravel #instago #tourism #wanderlust #vacation #postcardsfromtheworld #tourism #tourist #travelgram #travelswithDarwin #travelswithDarDeo #IsJorEg

[londontheatre]

  Flora Dawson & Shane Noone – Photo by Jesse Night

This is a thriller in disguise. Writer Andrew Maddock uses a millennial guy blokesplaining “art” as an excellent distraction technique to lure us into the false premise that we are deep into a polemic about “the meaning of art” or, less subtly, “modern art is crap: discuss”. Turns out Maddock is merely setting the scene for the thriller-to-come: about which I cannot divest too much detail as I intend to avoid the epithet Spoiler-in- Chief.

The serious-yet-jokey tone of the opening sequence, where working-class window-cleaning bloke is arguing with his Gap-Yah type, leather-trousered, out-of-his-league girlfriend – who happens to run and curate an art gallery, though not the one they are arguing in – leads us up a Banksyesque garden path, stopping to admire a bit of Lichtenstein on the way. Reece, said bloke, is never gonna “get it” (art, that is) is he? (or we? – blokes, that is); whilst girlfriend Alice is never gonna convince him (or we – me in particular) that Banksy isn’t worth the brickwork he’s stencilled on. So naturally bloke says – “OK – you win”. At which point girlfriend says (I paraphrase and précis) “I don’t want to win”. They fall out. They almost split up. And they decide, after a cooling off period, to buy the painting they’ve been arguing about. And they might well live unhappily ever after. Did I mention bloke has a heart condition?

And, by the way, said painting has been doctored by a street artist and is now worth three times the original asking price. Never underestimate a mixed palette…

Meanwhile, intriguingly (and cleverly) interwoven with this everyday story of millennial folk, a much more brutally feral relationship is being played out by teenager Sam and her older brother Kev. Sam, autistic and hyper-active is concerned about their seriously ill mother whilst Kev, out on licence from prison, is looking for that one last big score to get the funds to take said mother to Colorado for treatment. You can probably piece the rest together – but I’m not saying any more.

This is an intelligent one-acter by Maddock who, as we saw in his “We Plays” delights in delving deep into his characters to find what actually makes them tick and he is not afraid to take time in developing relationships which draw us in and allow us to understand what people’s motivations are, how their past affects their present and how their present is going to affect their future. His writing has an intensity that gets us on the edge of our seats before he smacks us in the gob when the smouldering drama bursts into full-conflagration.

Maddock and director Niall Phillips have drawn together an excellent troupe of actors in He(Art). Jack Gogarty as window-cleaning Rhys gives us that laconic, laid-back, I’m-a- bloke-so- what-do- I-know?, antidote-to- feminism persona that naturally disguises a highly intelligent, sensitive and thoughtful, light-under- bushel-hiding man of our times. Through a nod and a wink and a WTF?-style look and a perfectly timed aside Gogarty shows us a real character without reverting to stereotype – not easy when playing this type of role.

Girlfriend Alice – Alex Reynolds – has the look and the clipped speech and cut-glass accent which make us ask the question “Is Alice for real?” We find out, later, that actually she’s not when, under stress, her real character surfaces. Thus Reynolds shows us her skill at constructing Alice’s disguise – disguise being the major theme of Maddock’s work here.

An adult playing a teenager amongst adults is an inescapably difficult task and Flora Dawson delivers an eccentric, jittery, unbalanced and often very moving performance as Sam, torn between love and duty to her mother and unbridled reverence and hero-worship of her renegade brother. And as Kev, that bother, Shane Noone gives us the whole shebang through affectionate protector, positive role model, uncompromising villain to desperate and sensitive human being. It’s a consummate performance by Noone.

The set design, by Director Phillips, with all props suspended, and retrieved from, the ceiling lends a quirky kind of Hirstesque feel to the show and his decision to imprison his four actors in the confines of the four sides of the in-the-round staging – both before “curtain-up” and after the curtain call – engenders the impression of caged animals unable to escape so opting for escapism instead – through art, through disguise, through a cause however misguided it is.

This is a highly effective piece by Maddock and is well worthy of a trip down the Northern Line to Balham, where Theatre N17 resides at the wonderful old Bedford Pub, on this occasion hosting Lonesome Schoolboy productions. Best though, to leave your Art-world prejudices – both natural and pretentious – at the door.

Review by Peter Yates

Alice just wants Rhys to see a doctor about his heart thingie. Kevin and his sister Sam just wanna make sure their mums gonna be ok. All of them have got their eye on the same painting.

A HE(ART) warming comedy about how far you’ll go to protect the ones you love, and a definition of what true art really is. Featuring an upbeat Motown soundtrack and bought to you by the creative team behind the 2016 critically acclaimed and Off-West End Award nominated IN/OUT (A Feeling) & the writer of the Off-West End Award nominated and acclaimed ‘The Me Plays’ & ‘The We Plays’.

Creative Team: Written by: Andrew Maddock Directed by: Niall Phillips Produced by: Lonesome Schoolboy Booking to 28th January 2017 http://ift.tt/1UUwjhQ

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[itwasparadise]

Street art. #Paris #cbsdansparis #banksyesque #graffiti (at Bonne Nouvelle Paris)

[atemporalife]

#chicago #city #streetart | #art #graffiti #urbandecay #chitown #banksyesque

[madebynbph-blog]

Feeling Banksy. #banksyesque #banksy #streething #clavelmagazine #streetart #street (at 38th Street, Fort Bonifacio)

[kkinahan]

#BanksyEsque #StreetArt #SpencerLofts #ChelseaMA #ChelseaMass (at Spencer Lofts)

[nigelstewart]

Painted on the ceiling of the Wilshire underpass at the VA. #Banksyesque (at Veterans Administration Healthcare Center)

[72dmp]

#kfc #graffiti #graf #banksyesque #banksy #monkey #street #streetart

[futurewetparkinglots-blog]

Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA