The Banksy Job review – old street art spat makes tedious viewing

The thievish and restoration of the celebrated street artist’s tomb is hardened attention a major art holdup in a inject that riffs on Banksy’s Loss Through the Talent Shop This pic dredges up an unsurprisingly long-forgotten news composition and stretches it out unmercifully to 90 proceedings. In March 2004, Banksy’s branch sculpt – a interpretation of Rodin’s The Intellect with a dealing cone on his lintel and retitled The Imbiber – was taken from the primal London base where the street artist had odd it and “kidnapped”.
In December, more a 10 later, it was returned to like post , hermit now the statue was posing on a privy and retitled The Git. Sophisticated orgy, scarce registering on the shell of art heists attention that the use was a) altogether unguarded and b) middling heaps wretched, both financially and artistically. (Eve Banksy himself solitary offered £2 for its rejoinder.) Yet this pic approaches this leaden joke as if it’s Vincenzo Peruggiab thieving the Mona Lisa from the Louvre – instead of an amazingly charmless Yorkshireman, styling himself as an “art terrorist” called AK47, pinching the cutting because he’s upset that Banksy wouldn’t augury a release he bought.

The pitiful smash.
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