Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Friday, September 7, 2012
NYC Fashion Week - Karlie Kloss
Yesterday afternoon, in the Meatpacking.
Later, at the DKNY's FNO party.
Later, at the DKNY's FNO party.
Pictures by Alda Mori
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Street Art Around Rue Mouffetard
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| "Wake-up" Stencil by Jef Aerosol |
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| Jimi Hendrix Regarde Le Ciel |
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| Flute Player Stencil |
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| Cello Player Stencil by Lez'Arts de La Bièvre |
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| Unidentified |
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| "Créer C'est Résister" Stencil by Miss-Tic |
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| Marybel Graffiti |
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| "Les Raboteurs" or How Caillebotte's painting has been revisited by Lez'Arts de La Bièvre |
Pictures by Alda Mori
Monday, July 16, 2012
Monday, June 25, 2012
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Banksy and Damien Hirst: a 2-in-1 shampoo?
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| Stencil by Banksy - Picture by Nick Stern |
Are Banksy and Damien Hirst a 2-in-1 shampoo? This weird question has been haunting me for
weeks and, to tell you the truth as crazy and pointless as it may be, it still
is as I am writing this post.
When did the craziness strike me? Well, I guess you can thank Dokoupil and the
German magazine 032C*. Weeks ago I read
an interview of this artist named Dokoupil.
Asked by the journalist who his favorite artist of the present was, he
answered Damien Hirst whom he says that he “also
runs a successful sub-label as Banksy.”**
Wait a minute.
What did I just read? Was this
guy serious? No. He couldn’t be.
A few questions later, asked whether he was
convinced that Hirst is Banksy, he replied “Absolutely. Someone that I have known for decades and
whom I trust one hundred percent, someone who really must know told me that
Banksy is Hirst invention. It would also
explain why Banksy has kept his identity a secret until now (…).”***
Obviously, he was.
Probably like many others before me, I have always
thought that Banksy never revealed his identity to avoid prosecution. Indeed, despite the beauty of his art, Banksy
remains for the rigid right-minded people a criminal.
So, if not for this article, Dokoupil’s theory
would have never crossed my mind. But
the more I reflected on it the more I started to wonder why not after all. Both Banksy and Hirst are from Bristol, which
is a strange geographical coincidence, and both are almost the same age (yes, the
same age; 47 and 38 are almost the same age).
Nah. Those
are very meager coincidences. It doesn’t
make sense, does it?
At that point of my divagation, something however
was trotting in the back of my sick mind. This something was nothing less than Banksy’ s
movie “Exit through the gift shop”.
In this movie, Mr. Brainwash (undoubtedly Banksy’s
creation and maybe Hirst’s too if Dokoupil is right) compares himself to Hirst.
Don’t you find this reference intriguing?
I do to the extent where I am really wondering
right now if in the end I am not being brainwashed by the the Banksy-Hirst
2-in-1 shampoo!
Alda
* 032C – n°22
** Page 143 and 144
*** Page 144
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Monday, May 28, 2012
Monday, April 23, 2012
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Monday, April 16, 2012
Sunday, April 15, 2012
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