This spur to activity, however, is rare for him. The Birmingham work is harmless, and with its bench and homeless occupant, it has a useful physicality: the passers-by are prompted to engage with real wood, real flesh-and-blood – and they did. He has poked fun at the Venice Biennale, too (not necessarily such a bad thing) with a satirical mural that he left in a different part of town. In October, he stole headlines during Frieze London when Devolved Parliament – a painting devoid of artistic or ethical merit – sold for £9.9 million. (A man, according to reports, was seen shouting: “Shall I tag it?”) The Jewellery Quarter Business Improvement District, with one eye on repeat offenders and another on the bottom line, will be employing “round-the-clock” security to avoid a repeat. The reindeer sit behind perspex now.īanksy has had a busy year. One reindeer gained a red nose, spray-painted fuzzily on. Soon, local artists – in their way – engaged. The artist filmed a homeless man, “Ryan”, settling down in the winter chill, and thanked passers-by in the Jewellery Quarter for the generosity they quickly showed. His latest work is a pair of stencilled reindeer, hooked up in a trompe l’oeil trick to an actual wooden bench. Banksy is back again, this time in Birmingham.
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