Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Going (Velvet) Underground

In the phenomenon of Banksy the graffiti artist is the neat summation of a conundrum of the media age. Contrary to the famous proclamation, fifteen minutes of anonymity is now the aspiration for many. In the case of Banksy the irony is that the longer his anonymity perseveres the more famous he as an entity becomes.

I don’t think even Warhol had a soundbite to cover that one.