Posted on 11/25/2021 8:38:54 PM PST by nickcarraway
A New York City woman believes she may have scored two Banksy artworks for just $120 after coming across a mysterious art sale inside a subway station.
Colleen Alexander, 26, took to TikTok last week to share a video explaining how she bought the works that could have been created by the elusive British graffiti artist.
“I just can’t stop shaking at the chance that this may be real,” Alexander exclaimed at the beginning of her 3-minute TikTok video, which has now been viewed more than 6.6 million times.
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They call anything ‘art’ these days...
Don’t think I’d pay $60 for both of those
They look like Banksy’s style. Though it could be imitated. A building owner ripped out a wall in his building recently for the chance of selling the real Banksy tag on it.
From a Google search:
He started working in the subways. He began drawing in chalk inside the spaces reserved for ads in the stations; when empty, these areas were covered with sheets of black paper, which essentially became Haring’s canvases as he began to work out the pop iconography—radiant babies, dancing figures, flying saucers—that brought him fame.
Sorry she paid so much, but there’s a fool born every minute.
If I knew it was a Banksy I would, but only for the value, not because I like his art.
Not to worry - I’m sure she’s more than made up the $120 with her 6.6 million Tik-Tok views.
Looks like the artwork of an obviously amazingly skilled artist, a can of black spray paint, and a stencil. Whooda thought?
Who is Bansky???
They call anything ‘art’ these days...
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If Bansky is an artist, so is Hunter Biden.
There! I’ve said it and I won’t take it back.
He’s a stencil artist that built up his reputation by being mysterious - the public doesn’t know his true identity, but it’s often speculated about.
That would be cool if it is Banksy, I like his other stuff but not those so much.
He’s done something similar before on the street, so it’s possible.
Ahhhh...thx
So, is there anything else that you'd like somebody to look up on the internet for you?
Sixty bucks for a wall hanging isn’t bad, even if it’s not “authentic”. If she were smart, she’d find an artistic friend, pay him or her to make ten copies and sell them each for ten times the price. The art market is just legalized money laundering anyway, might as well knock out some rent along the way.
Yea yea...but not tonight...
His "art" looks like woke drivel but he's a regular Rembrandt compared to Beijing Biden Jr.
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