Banksy Does New York Page #4

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because everybody who looks at that

or takes a picture of that one

is also gonna get you.

First week, you saw people

tagging major pieces by banksy.

It was a call-and-response.

It was banksy saying,

"New York, here I am."

It was other graffiti artists

saying, "hear you loud and clear."

Yeah.

People had negative reactions

to his work getting ragged

by graffiti writers,

and people who wanted to rag his work...

They're all part

of the performance, you know?

It's like performance art.

It's like epic street theater.

Within the street-art community,

there are a lot of graffiti artists

who think that banksy is a poser,

that he's sold out,

that he is not authentic anymore

because of his notoriety.

I mean, it plays into this

"street art versus graffiti" divide.

There's a feeling

that graffiti is prosecuted

much more aggressively than street art,

graffiti is something that's bad.

So, you got this whole

sweltering sort of undertone

that already exists,

and in plops banksy.

Mine, mine, mine is on the inside

mine, mine, mine is on the inside

mine, mine, mine is on the inside

I don't really like you,

but I like you on the inside

Banksy comes from a sort of

traditional graffiti background.

Graffiti... it starts the story.

It's the original street art.

New York is the holy grail

of street artists and graffiti writers,

and I think there were a lot

of factors in New York

that made it important,

one of which was the fact that

there was a lot of empowerment

for marginal voices

in the '70s in New York.

There was also a strong art community.

There was also a strong

community of protest

that was going on in this city.

So, all these factors

sort of became this cocktail

that really, you know,

birthed the movement.

We didn't have art programs back then.

We didn't have sports programs

back then.

So, if you were competitive

and if you were an artist,

the trains were like

a giant beacon for you.

5 pointz is really

one of the rare locations

in the city of New York

where writers and graffiti artists

can come together and really

explore their talents,

collaborate.

And people from around the world

would come to New York

to visit it as a landmark.

And you pass it on the train,

and it's got that old,

gritty, industrial, wild sense

that New York had much more

at a point in time in the past.

But it's private property.

A developer acquired it

with plans to change it.

The largest legal

aerosol outlet in the u. S.,

quite possibly the world.

It was about artists

coming in and telling the story.

This is the difference between

public art and Times Square.

Banksy... his quote was,

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