Faux Banksy!

A faux Banksy at the corner of Wooster and Grand Street in SoHo.


From the Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco over the weekend.

These are really fun appropriations of the work of well-known street artists. My hope is that as "mainstream" culture embraces street art, more young artists will be inspired to create similarly innovative and clever work, and maybe even with a message. My fear is that street art becomes a slave to the market in the way that some of the rest of the art market has become.

(Thanks Steve for sending these images to me!)