It means Banksy, who has remained anonymous for more than 25 years, could finally be unmasked as he would be required to publicly disclose his name if brought to court.
Gonna be hard to bring them to court if you don’t even know their name, isn’t it?
There’s two companies associated with the name, at least. This is from memory, so grain of salt, but i believe there’s a company specifically to get a hold of the artist(s). And one that sells the prints and stuff.
With the London surveillance apparatus, I bet they could figure out who Banksy is. It’d be an insane waste of time and resources, but I bet they could.
I’ve long heard that his identity is an open secret and a lot of people know his actual identity. Solid chance the UK government already knows who he is.
Gonna be hard to bring them to court if you don’t even know their name, isn’t it?
He has sold some of his work at auction, I’m guessing they didn’t write a check to “Banksy”.
probably wrote the cheque to a shell company
There’s two companies associated with the name, at least. This is from memory, so grain of salt, but i believe there’s a company specifically to get a hold of the artist(s). And one that sells the prints and stuff.
Banksy is a company at this point. They can find them if they want to. It’s not like they’ve never exchanged money for thier work before.
With the London surveillance apparatus, I bet they could figure out who Banksy is. It’d be an insane waste of time and resources, but I bet they could.
Could always make them waste even more resources by adding noise to what little data they might have.
I’m
SpartacusBanksy!The fact that they’re going to all this trouble over this image proves the point the image was making better than anything else possibly could have.
Streisand Effect to the max.
Exactly and the image is already out on the internet now.
Link?
Before and after they tried to remove it only to further bolster the message
Honestly, they inadvertently made it better, and certainly made it more poignant
It’s almost like it was Banksy’s plan all along because the removed artwork looks just as powerful as the full artwork.
Does he still install them himself? Isn’t it likely he sent someone to do it for him?
They have done both.
Couldn’t tell ya, but that’s certainly plausible.
I’ve long heard that his identity is an open secret and a lot of people know his actual identity. Solid chance the UK government already knows who he is.
Them silently knowing his identity is not the same as them proving his identity in court though.