Saturday, October 6, 2018

Alex Tabarrok — Banksy is the Real Deal

Reminiscent of Tibetan Buddhist lamas that create large intricate sandpaintings and then smudge them up when they are done, representing the impermanence of worldly phenomena and the requisite need for non-attachment.

Marginal Revolution
Banksy is the Real Deal
Alex Tabarrok | Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center and Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and a research fellow with the Mercatus Center

Update:

Zero Hedge
"F**king Historical" - Watch Banksy Painting Self-Destruct At Sotheby's Auction
Tom McKay




3 comments:

Noah Way said...

Brilliant!

Konrad said...

For me, most modern art is excrement. Picasso, Rothko, Matisse, etc etc -- excrement.

Some "modern art" consists of the artist's bodily excrement (literally) while other examples consist of a blank and empty wall. [The latter is called "conceptual art."]

It's all a game of the emperor's new clothes, and everyone knows it. Idiots gape at a lump of pig feces while marveling at its "genius."

Noah Way said...

@Konrad

Banksy is the most politically and socially relevant artist working today.

Too bad you're too dim to get it.