{"id":745,"date":"2007-06-28T16:28:56","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T06:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=745"},"modified":"2007-06-28T16:28:56","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T06:28:56","slug":"monkeywrenching-the-yartz-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=745","title":{"rendered":"Monkeywrenching the Yartz Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On the one hand, The Controversial Artist Banksy\u2122<\/a> sells Barely Legal & Yet Extremely Lucrative product to Aguilera, Jolie and Moss; on the other hand, motherfuckers<\/a> in New York put street art up against the wall…<\/p>\n

As Street Art Goes Commercial, a Resistance Raises a Real Stink<\/a>
\nColin Moynihan
\nThe New York Times<\/em>
\nJune 28, 2007<\/p>\n

The covert campaign targeting street art began about seven months ago, with blobs of paint that appeared overnight, obscuring murals and wheat-pasted art on walls in Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan. Arcane messages were pasted at the sites, but it was difficult to ask for an explanation. The author was never identified…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah well, that’s ‘cos he’s dead right? Funny thing is, unlike Uncle Ted<\/a>, The Splashers didn’t need to engage in a bombing campaign in order to get their manifesto<\/a> published. Well, not a real one anyway.<\/p>\n

See also<\/em> : Cynical Picture Emerges In ‘Splasher’ Mystery: Some Smell an Ad Campaign in the Case Of New York City’s Serial Graffiti Defacer<\/a>, David Segal, Washington Post<\/em>, March 10, 2007: “Avant-Garde: Advance Scouts for Capital<\/em> reads the headline. Most [of] the copy is mumbo jumbo like this: “A fetishized action of banality, your work is a trough for the gallery owners and critics”. Who would deface graffiti<\/a>, of all things? And what is “fetishized action” anyway?”<\/p>\n

In a series of essays and in text that appeared under the headline \u201cInterview With Myself\u201d the anonymous authors said that the splashings were committed not by an individual but by a group of men and women, and offered some explanation of their motives.<\/p>\n

The authors wrote that street art was \u201ca bourgeoisie-sponsored rebellion\u201d that helped pave the way for gentrification, and called it \u201cutterly impotent politically and fantastically lucrative<\/a> for everyone involved.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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On the one hand, The Controversial Artist Banksy\u2122 sells Barely Legal & Yet Extremely Lucrative product to Aguilera, Jolie and Moss; on the other hand, motherfuckers in New York put street art up against the wall… As Street Art Goes … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natas","category-anarchism","category-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-c1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}