"When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires."
– Banksy
Banksy Art Sale in Central Park [video]
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This is from The Tale of The Adopted Daughter, which appears in Time Enough for Love. It's a really beautiful piece and the ending gets me every single time.
Yes, that's the one. I have to reread that book, it must have been more than 20 years ago I read it.
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I find that much more amazing because you can hear how amazing Joshua Bell is as you walk by. You wouldn't hear it and say "that guy must be faking". It's common for NYC street vendors to sell art that is a copy of a more famous work, and there's no way to tell by looking.
There is no way to tell the difference in a subway station, even for an instrument as loud as a violin. Moreover, no one goes to the subway to listen to music.
If you're into this kind of music, you could tell, sure. He begin playing one of the hardest to master solo violin pieces of the repertoire. If I saw someone playing Bach's Chaconne on the street, I'd stop right away. There's no way street musicians would be able to play it like he did. Well, about a thousand people passed by, and seven stopped to listen. 0.7% of the sample isn't that bad. Plus, he made 50 bucks in less than an hour.
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I find that much more amazing because you can hear how amazing Joshua Bell is as you walk by. You wouldn't hear it and say "that guy must be faking". It's common for NYC street vendors to sell art that is a copy of a more famous work, and there's no way to tell by looking.
There is no way to tell the difference in a subway station, even for an instrument as loud as a violin. Moreover, no one goes to the subway to listen to music.
Yeah that's the qualm I've always had with that 'experiment' in a subway you're on your way to do something else, usually on a time crunch. Add on the noise and the fact that most people couldn't tell an amazing concert level performer from a simply good performer and the result is foregone.
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#96If your are all interested in Banksy I'd urge you to watch a film that he accidentally was forced to make about Street Art and himself, well let's say because the original Director...well you will see. It's called Exit Through The Gift Shop, I watched on Netflix. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0b90YppquE I've always been a fan of Banksy's work. Especially the work he did at the dividing wall on both sides in the Wes…
exit is a great film, i think it paints banksy as an ass, the five minutes of 'life, remote control' was mind blowing, even despite the derision with which it is presented, and to think banksy watched that and thought, 'i have make my own movie because this is trash and i can make a good movie' seems like a narcissistic dick move, plus the anonymity made sense when it was illegal... but now it plays like a gimmick wh…
Thanks for the video.
I feel a little conflicted on my feelings towards Banksy.
But I'm not really that invested in him or anyone else. It's just human behaviour I guess.
I'm not sure how to feel about Banksy and his war with Robbo. I feel for Robbo, that dude just had the worst luck.(I have the issue to).
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I find that much more amazing because you can hear how amazing Joshua Bell is as you walk by. You wouldn't hear it and say "that guy must be faking". It's common for NYC street vendors to sell art that is a copy of a more famous work, and there's no way to tell by looking.
There is no way to tell the difference in a subway station, even for an instrument as loud as a violin. Moreover, no one goes to the subway to listen to music.
I'm not saying I would have stopped, because I don't often, but I could tell. I have neighbors who are very into this sort of thing and from the few hours of exposure I've gotten through them, I would have known immediately that this was no average performance.
Also a violin as expensive as the one he was playing sounds pretty great in any environment.
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http://www.artnet.com/artwork/426239067/424327227/banksy-kid... This piece which you see sold to 'the lady from New Zeland', seems to be part of a run of 25 pieces and priced at 100k-120k.
That's very nice, when I saw it on the video I said "I would buy that". Of course for 60$.. :)
That was the piece that caught my eye too :)