A new report claims to have once-and-for-all unmasked the elusive graffiti artist Banksy, who has been operating under complete anonymity since the early 1990s.
The investigation, published Friday by Reuters, combs through and eventually sets aside some of the buzzier theories as to the “Girl with Balloon” artist’s true identity. Is he the Massive Attack frontman Robert Del Naja? Or the street artist Thierry Guetta, also known as Mr. Brainwash, who was the subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, which Banksy directed and — completely disguised, of course — also featured in?
After nearly three decades of speculation, journalists Simon Gardner, James Pearson, and Blake Morrison claim “beyond dispute” that Banksy is a man named Robin Gunningham.
Entertainment Weekly did not immediately hear back from Pest Control Office, the agency the artist founded to sell his work and respond to press requests.
TheCitizen616 on
No, *I* am Banksy!
Foxhound199 on
Leave Banksy *alone*!
Nicholie on
And no one cares.
If almost. That was the point.
mcnugglepuppy on
Hasn’t this been known for years? No one cared, and it changed nothing.
I guess they’ll just recycle this story every few years… because everyone forgets because they don’t care. 🤷♂️
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A new report claims to have once-and-for-all unmasked the elusive graffiti artist Banksy, who has been operating under complete anonymity since the early 1990s.
The investigation, published Friday by Reuters, combs through and eventually sets aside some of the buzzier theories as to the “Girl with Balloon” artist’s true identity. Is he the Massive Attack frontman Robert Del Naja? Or the street artist Thierry Guetta, also known as Mr. Brainwash, who was the subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, which Banksy directed and — completely disguised, of course — also featured in?
After nearly three decades of speculation, journalists Simon Gardner, James Pearson, and Blake Morrison claim “beyond dispute” that Banksy is a man named Robin Gunningham.
Entertainment Weekly did not immediately hear back from Pest Control Office, the agency the artist founded to sell his work and respond to press requests.
No, *I* am Banksy!
Leave Banksy *alone*!
And no one cares.
If almost. That was the point.
Hasn’t this been known for years? No one cared, and it changed nothing.
I guess they’ll just recycle this story every few years… because everyone forgets because they don’t care. 🤷♂️
New shit has come forward