{"id":467,"date":"2016-02-01T16:52:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T21:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/?p=467"},"modified":"2016-02-01T16:52:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T21:52:14","slug":"who-is-banksy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/2016\/02\/01\/who-is-banksy\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Banksy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the center of the 2014 &#8220;documentary&#8221; <em>Exit Through the Gift Shop<\/em> is the enigmatic street artist Banksy. Many critics questioned just how real\u00a0 Banksy&#8217;s film is, but on an even more fundamental level, many of us have probably asked: who is Banksy?<\/p>\n<p>While it appears that there is a street artist named Banksy, he has, remarkably remained anonymous for all these years. This article from the <em>New Yorker<\/em> gives more information:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2007\/05\/14\/banksy-was-here\" target=\"_blank\">Banksy Was Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Banksy&#8217;s work as been described as &#8220;anarchist&#8221; and &#8220;anti-war.&#8221; There are a ton of examples in this gallery:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twistedsifter.com\/2014\/07\/the-ultimate-banksy-gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Ultimate Banksy Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, Banksy has branched out, doing normal canvass paintings. In a rather bizarre turn, he also designed this dark 2010 &#8220;couch gag&#8221; for <em>The Simpsons<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Simpsons\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DX1iplQQJTo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <em>Simpsons<\/em> show runner Al Jean discussing the background of the opening:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/11\/the-simpsons-explains-its-button-pushing-banksy-opening\/?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\"> \u2018The Simpsons\u2019 Explains Its Button-Pushing Banksy Opening<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My favorite part is that, in typical <em>Simpsons<\/em> fashion, the couch gag has nothing to do with the rest of the episode, so after all that darkness you&#8217;re treated to &#8220;MoneyBart,&#8221; which is exactly what you think it is. (Read: a parody of <em>Moneyball<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>So, what did everyone else think about Banksy? I find it impressive that he has managed to remain in the shadows for so long, and I do find some of his work pretty neat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the center of the 2014 &#8220;documentary&#8221; Exit Through the Gift Shop is the enigmatic street artist Banksy. Many critics questioned just how real\u00a0 Banksy&#8217;s film is, but on an even more fundamental level, many of us have probably asked: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/2016\/02\/01\/who-is-banksy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2680,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}