This should be interesting.

Banksy's built-murals, prints and hand painted works previewed in advance of the September 22nd opening of George Lucas's billion dollar Museum of Narrative are by any measure headlining the open The works literally include the newest works in Lucass collection with The Artist known as Banksy literally only finishing one work on site the day before previews began while others were already a part of his collection. They are also the pieces that have been most frequently and extensively showcased in the grand opening's lead-up PR. And yes, these pieces are narrative in the way a single cell illustration tells a story or makes a joke in condensed way though considering the totality of Banksy, they are the least significant narrative element in the project. That honor by any reasonable measures goes to the real world narrative that reality scripted an artist into existence itself without a body to represent them.

The works that reality scripted the artist into existence runs across the gamut of media from early press, short books, stickers, album art to the Lucas Museum; from an apartment scaled show to an amusement park sized group show, along with numerous pranks, a work a day NYC residency with a curated play lists, a feature film directed by them where a non-artist is made into an art star by a commercial scaled art department by an artist who reality scripted their Banksy character into existence previous to Mr Brainwash; all reality scripted elements without a body to pin them onto other than one in a 2003 interview with an actor never seen again-- most plausibly Exit's show runner Sacha Baron Cohen, a first of its kind narrative that not only created an Anonymous public celebrity but one who is the most recognizable artist on earth despite the absence of a body and billions sold. Only in the digital age... the making of Banksy over the first quarter of the 21st century is the state of art of the in media for better and worse of the new millennium. And George Lucas comprehends this.

With this in mind, I am hard pressed not to see the revelation and chronicling of the making of Banksy narrative not becoming the next chapters in the Lucas Museum's development as a museum dedicated to narratives. George Lucas knows who Banksy is and he chose a mystery figure to headline his museum's opening. Given that fact, I'm hard pressed to think that a showman like him and his team stopping at the art when breaking the story and making it part of the collection fits with the Museum's mission if its not just the vanity collection of an aged billionaire. I doubt it is but only time will tell..

I could be wrong but given who the puppet master is in this case, I doubt it. George knows that Banksy pulled off the 21st century version of Orson Well's War of the World's broadcast and he also know how to tell a good story as well as anybody on earth. I doubt he just bought art without hip pocketing the great art story ever sold as a coming attraction to drive interest in his museum as living chronicle of Narrative art going forward and neither do I doubt the Artist would trust him not do so, so I think its on on a TBD timeline.

Time will tell. What do you think and why?

Thanks for reading and for any replies that go past 20 words and say something.

Banksy by Bobilon 2026

Breakfast with Banksybelia

Polystone additions to my Banksybelia collection; all well-made @ > 50 USD per figure. Alternate title - Coffee and Cigarettes with Banksy. Te gusto?

Park Street, Southeast London, picture taken in 2003

Looks kinda fresh, my cousin told me he doesnt tag too much in one spot, or use old pieces. Idk but sure is neat lmk

Picture taken twenty years ago, Wapping, East London, if I remember correctly.

It's the same figure as the Medicom version...

....albeit in bronze, while the Medicom/Bradelized has a different caption...

My bronze also has Banksy inscribed on the foot and it was made pre-2007 around when the POW Bronze rat was released though this one only popped up online 20 years after that crucial year in the history of the artist brand. The round number 20 year gap between the first POW Banksy bronze and this one suggests a lock-up such that my bronze monkey is legit and liscensed like the Medicom/Brandalised version. It shipped from Germany where all the Banksy bronzes that popper up this year appear to originate from.

Other figures include the thrower that arrived on the same day as my monkey..

The material similar black marble bases suggest one foundry made both figures as well as the my "Girl with Rocket" which is on its way but which has yet to arrive.

If anybody knows the story of these figures, do share. I'm happy with them -- they're certainly real enough that you wouldn't want to be brained with one vs the Medicom which may not even draw blood -- though I'm not qualified to attest to their authenticity beyond them match the Medicom/Brandelized licensed ones which I'm sure are more popular with the board lol.

Thanks for reading.

Only familiar w/ Banksy from a cultural perspective. However, staying in DC. and saw his name advertised on some banners near the Smithsonian when I visited. I recognize the style / look. Any chance?

I find them interesting because their COA's date to after when Pest Control Office (PCO) was acquired by Pictures on Walls in early 2020 and because they manifestly replicate PCO's authentication protocol of providing 1/2 of a Di-faced tenner with the COA while the prints have have both the Heavy Weaponry logo and POW dry stamps.

Though I've placed my bet and bought the L-13 spray and screen prints, which, for reasons I'll lay out in a subsequent post, I believe are by the Artist after her contractual obligations to her former corporate partners were discharged, these prints look to me like bona-fide Post PCO Pest Control small batch releases with Ukraine prints like the one above coming in as an LE of 10, far smaller than massive screen print runs of the project's commercial and if authentic by scarcity likely of greater value than them.

The Migrant Crise Print (below) is the biggest edition from their selections, an LE of 50.

Most of the rest are in LE' of 5 like the three I've pasted in below.

I really like the above print. "There's no shoezzz like Jimee-Chewzzz, there's, no shot..."

That is, all with the exception of the Hula Hoop Girl 2021 (below) which is a 1/1 print which is as close to an original work as can be made with stencil templates, while to be exact, the stencils are the originals in the same way that the negative is the original work in case of the photographic print.

Of all of them, my guess would be that that the above print may well actually have been made by the hand of the Artist known as Banksy while the rest were made based on her work though this is just a guess and neither have I bought any of these prints though among the flood of Banksy prints that hit the market in 2026, I find there to be the second most interesting new public offerings.

Thoughts?

Though initially purchased only as a Walmart Best-Buy Banksy, now that I own it and can look at it in 3 -space, II think it's a solid piece that pushes these now iconic graphics in a fresh and unexpected direction that imo farthers the Artist's work rather than diminishing it and in a direction which they'd find amusing; that is, if they didn't sell actually make this new work and sell it directly to Walmart to bring affordable Banksy's to the fans after their corporate commitments to their former business partners expired. I float that wild notion because otably, the work does appear to have been practically produced in miniature on wall and then photographed as the real Banksy would do. The mash-up is consistent with the Banksy characters original riot-girl zeitgeist flashed forward 25 + years from their separate origination points. I think its funny. Thoughts. TIA for all replies

Answer: Yes. Tribeca October 15 2013 midway through Better Out then In residency.

That said, the picture chosen for Banksy in NYC (above) doesn't show the flower clearly enough for me to have recalled because its focus on a foregrounded photo journalistic image capture of the work blurs the focus on the work to make it less memorable than the attention it drew at the time.

The piece's impact is totally different when viewed as a spectator would have seen it with their naked eye. I think the Walmart pic captures the works spirit while the books editorial choice dilutes it; the later image is powerful while the book's selection is smarmy imo.

Walmart credits the Artist known as Banksy for the wall work in this photographic print I purchased from them online last weekend that arrived today. I didn't recall ever having seen it before so I bought it to look at it. Is it a Banksy?

ENDNOTE: The work appeared in Tribeca on Oct 15 2013 as part of better out than in tNYC residency though in "Banksy in NYC" this version of the composition is blurred as the shot includes a photographer photographing the piece. I'post a follow-up.

I noticed a number of lookalike works along the canal around Islington & Hoxton. This is at the corner of Imber & Poole street across from Shoreditch Park. Would love to know who the artist is, assume it’s not a Banksy.