10
Oct
2008
Hooded Banksy turns out to be, not hooded Banksy!
After speculation that a photographer had caught the elusive Banksy on camera, it turns out that the picture of the hooded man spotted overseeing the latest Banksy Graffiti Mural in New York on Wednesday, was not the secretive artist.
This is good to know as given he is anonymous – standing around under a giant rat and giving directions to the painters would not be the best way to preserve anonymity and Banksy has always struck me as being a shrewd man!
The photograph which showed a hooded man with a beard and jet-black sunglasses directing one of the workers from Colossal Media as they painted the latest New York Rat, turns out to be R. Nicholas Kuszyk, a Brooklyn based artist who is informally affiliated with both Colossal Media and Banksy and was photographed overseeing the two most recent murals, on behalf of Banksy.
Mr Kuszyk’s Artistic theme revolves around robots, rather than rats and is well worth a look.
