What does he even do to get the money to do all the things he's ever done?

The most likely candidate for being banksy is apparently some upper-middle-class dude with rich parents.

Seriously I discovered it on tumblr and thought it was an archie mcphee art post.

He's really quite terrible

kill banksy

fapitalism

where birth cert banksy where kenya???? democrat hanky-panksy

I kinda enjoyed the "Death riding the bumper cars" thing. Mostly because it missed the mark so badly, and instead just kinda feels like something your grandmother would share with you on Facebook.

Odd, he's pointing out flaws in society with rather scathing imagery - and now public opinion shall turn against him?
Hmmm.

Maybe people don't think much of him pointing them out and hoping someone else fixes them and gives him credit.

Banksy did cool enlightening things with graffiti! Now he sold out! Where am I gonna find another trendy white kid to inform me about the evils of greed?

Insert obligatory "Bill Hicks never sold out!" comment here.

(But that's only because Hicks died at 32 -- had he lived, he'd most likely be stumping for the Tea Party these days.)

I highly doubt that. Are you sure you're not confusing him with Sam Kinison?

What did banksy do?

"fuck capitalism!" -a millionaire

And it only cost me $25 million to show my disgust and discontent with capitalism!

I don't much care for his paintings, but I prefer Mark Rothko's attitude. He once refused a commission from the biggest restaurant in New York because "No one would look at it, they'd be too busy eating."

He was also commissioned by a German art gallery to do ten pieces for millions each. He said he would do it for free, if they instead built a small memorial acknowledging and apologizing for the holocaust. This was in the 1960s. Most of the survivors will still alive.

Because his paintings are too big for any but the largest galleries to display, and they don't translate well to prints, posters, etc. So most people don't even know he was a thing.

Capitalism is just collective ownership by a corporate elite, not unlike collective ownership by a political elite. Both discourage collective ownership by the people in a democracy.

Is that really what his art is saying though? I always thought he was just trying to get his audience to think critically about important issues. That's how I took the pop-up Gitmo he installed at Disneyland, anyway. But yeah, I'm not sure what his point is with Dismalland. Come to think of it, I thought his Simpsons couch gag sucked, too. He literally took a joke that was already used on an earlier episode and just padded it out to like a minute. Yeah, never mind, he sucks, you're right.

I thought he was just trying to demonstrate how he gets it and is one of the good ones to make up for the void in his life where purpose normally goes.

All true. I still like this one, though: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art.....g-scandal.html

I don't care, I wanna go to Dismaland

YOU SOLD OUT

He sounds like a broken record by now; I agree, capitalism/corporations are bad but can't he sing a different tune? like other problems in the world that need to be addressed but aren't as known by people?

In fact, he's kind of a dick; he gets all this money and instead of using it to help people, he uses it to build some edgy 2deep4U parody of disneyland.

"Hey, uh, down with capitalism.......uh, you gotta pay to get into my theme park tho, but down with capitalism woo"