{"id":226,"date":"2007-11-25T10:44:36","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T17:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=226"},"modified":"2018-11-23T02:52:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T21:52:57","slug":"banksy-hits-the-big-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/banksy-hits-the-big-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Banksy hits the Big Apple&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/hunters.jpg\" alt=\"hunters.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/balloongirl_alwayshope.jpg\" alt=\"balloongirl_alwayshope.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/haveaniceday.jpg\" alt=\"haveaniceday.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>New York, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A show of works by the ubiquitous Banksy, anarchist artist extraordinaire (aka \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2007\/05\/14\/070514fa_fact_collins?printable=true\" target=\"_blank\">the invisible man of graffiti art<\/a>\u201d) is scheduled to open at the <em>Vanina Holasek Gallery<\/em> in New York on 2 December\u2026 no doubt to be accompanied by impromptu creative iterations around the city. I\u2019ve admired Banksy\u2019s work for years, particularly with respect to his evocative anti-war, anti-capitalist, and pro-freedom statements.<\/p>\n<p>A \u201cbest and brightest\u201d piece in <em>Esquire<\/em> describes him as: \u201cA phantom with a stencil and a can of spray paint, maybe the premier &#8216;Guerrilla Street Artist&#8217; in the world, Banksy is almost impossible to find, but his work is everywhere. And he makes people very, very happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Read more about Banksy <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Banksy\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>; see more of Banksy\u2019s art <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.banksy.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, New York A show of works by the ubiquitous Banksy, anarchist artist extraordinaire (aka \u201cthe invisible man of graffiti art\u201d) is scheduled to open at the Vanina Holasek Gallery in New York on 2 December\u2026 no doubt to be accompanied by impromptu creative iterations around the city. I\u2019ve admired Banksy\u2019s work for years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,7,8,9,14,17,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17092,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/17092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}