Banksy Exclusive – Health Care – New Piece spotted in San Francisco – Warholian.com
Posted On: April 22, 2010
Posted In: artist, banksy, California, Chinatown, chinatown san francisco, documentary, exit through the gift shop, gift shop, kat, lovely city, mate, Michael Cuffe, Mike Cuffe, New, San Francisco, street art
Comments: 19 Responses
Posted In: artist, banksy, California, Chinatown, chinatown san francisco, documentary, exit through the gift shop, gift shop, kat, lovely city, mate, Michael Cuffe, Mike Cuffe, New, San Francisco, street art
Comments: 19 Responses
I have to thank my sister Kat Cuffe for buzzing me early this morning…she spotted an original fresh Banksy (internationally know street artist) in Chinatown, San Francisco on her way into work this morning, took this pic, and is letting Warholian.com break the news.
Our English mate is in town fresh for the premier of Exit Through the Gift Shop his new documentary and obviously was up early this morning bombing our lovely city.
-Warholian
What street was this on?
[...] is claiming it is. Can anyone confirm this for [...]
Hi,
Fast work getting it on the internet! Nice to meet you today, might see you tonight at the show if we can find it/get a ticket!
The English couple from this afternoon
Grant and Commercial in Chinatown… -Warholian
[...] new Banksy piece found in San Francisco’s Chinatown! (Are you going to watch the Banksy docu, “Exit [...]
Good Shot; I dashed over there right after I spoke to you and took some of my own shots. You can see them on the Flickr site, on the reverse of the card that I gave you.
There are more appearing on the sidewalks in San Francisco. Have a look and also see the comments on the shot I grabbed in the Mission: http://flic.kr/p/7VcpYU
[...] here's a cool new video from the site that broke this story [...]
[...] Banksy piece in Chinatown. San Francisco-based art blogger Mike Cuffe, who broke the story on warholian.com, even took it upon himself to pronounce the work legit. More Banksy murals are being spotted [...]
I could be wrong wrong wrong, but this work could be by French artist Blek le Rat. He’s here in the states from France because he has a show coming up at White Walls. He and Banksy have had a big influence on each other.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blek_le_Rat
Does anyone know if it’s still there? Or have the police came and had someone paint over it? I love Banksy and I will be making a mad dash over to Chinatown tomorrow!
It’s still there on the corner of Grant and Commercial on the Chinese Bakery.
It’s not Blek, his style is entirely different in the Rat department. But good call, that’s what came to mind for us too…so you were not alone in your suspicions.
I think I saw Banksy on Wednesday or Thursday with a younger friend. While his friend held his bag, Banksy (?) jumped over the fence and spent several minutes admiring the massive wall of graffiti on the wall of the building next to Walden house on 15th and Mission streets. On Friday morning, it appears that he left his mark: on the side of the building facing our street, 1300 Block of Minna: One black spray painted sentence: “If this ain’t heaven don’t kill me.” It was clever and I took photos of it not knowing who the artist was. This morning , it had been painted out.
Most graffiti art is nothing but property damage. It hurts our neighborhood. It deeply hurts the elderly property owners who live on my street. If the graffiti is not immediately removed, the city fines us hundreds dollars. Its a constant battle. My neighbor is physical ill, disabled and in a wheel chair and he must not only pay for the paint but hire somebody to paint over it. He’s on a limited income and has high medical costs. Banksy should spend some of his earnings to help people like my neighbor.
Can’t we come up with a humane, fair , and creative solution to the graffiti problem? Why should the city penalize us for the cruel work of these narcissistic and retarded jerks?
PS Art should heal people, not hurt.
Its back again after being painted over early this morning, the black letter message:
If this ain’t heaven then don’t kill me..”
Does this sound like Banksy?
It’s pretty funny that a British artist who is so political would paint a Native American holding a no trespassing sign. Here’s an idea go to Belfast and cover the walls with images and writing, telling Britain to get the hell out of Ireland. Now that would be interesting.
To-Deanne Berger-Moudgil: The owners of the bakery were paid to let the piece go up. Banksy is not your typical street graffiti artist, if you look at his work. I fully agree with you if the graffiti is just ugly spray paint on a building, but these are creative and political pieces of art. Just look at the political pieces he did on the Berlin Wall years ago. http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4153.shtml .
And considering the art is work is worth any where from thousands to millions of dollars, I don’t see why anyone would be upset receiving a million dollar piece of art. Shoot I would gladly pay you neighbors to remove the art if it was a Banksy.
Further more, if you have gone by the art work you will see how many people were excited to see the art work all over the city.
I hope you can see the difference in this kind of street art from graffiti.
Cheers,
Modern Art Love
The shading on the pant legs are remarkable. Great work here!