N.B. In case you thought my caption was a faux-pas and I should rather blame my 'fat finger' for the 'spoiling' error...
Though, admittedly, in my attempted coining of a catchy tagline, I'm using an archaic term (harking back to a time when 'ether' was used to denote the air regarded as a medium for radio!), as with this teacher clearing up this 'whiteboard' to begin his own presentation, I believe "etherity" goes a long way in depicting the virtual (hence, alienating) potentiality of internet and other alternative media that we substitute for communication.
by Bogdan Lepadatu (all rights reserved)
P.S. Yet, whether or not the societal numbness demonstrated below is about the all-pervasive pressure "to conform to neoliberalism's hegemonic, cognitive hyper-reality matrix" is another matter...
Street artist Banksy set up a stall in New York's Central Park Saturday, selling his original pieces — worth tens of thousands of dollars each — for $60.
The event was documented on video and posted on Banksy's website. It took several hours for the first artwork to be sold, to a lady who managed to negotiate a 50% discount for two small canvases. There were only two more buyers, and by 6 p.m. the stall was closed with total earnings of $420.
The event was documented on video and posted on Banksy's website. It took several hours for the first artwork to be sold, to a lady who managed to negotiate a 50% discount for two small canvases. There were only two more buyers, and by 6 p.m. the stall was closed with total earnings of $420.
For comparison, in 2007 Banksy's work "Space Girl & Bird" was purchased for $578,000, and in 2008 his canvas "Keep it Spotless" was sold for $1,870,000.
The three buyers who managed to buy Banksy's originals for a fraction of their worth will surely be happy with the purchases.
The one-off sale was another stunt by the secretive artist who just enjoys yanking the public's chain like this. In 2009 he staged his biggest-ever British exhibition in the Bristol Museum in almost complete secrecy.
And this was not the only stunt Banksy pulled during his visit to New York. A couple of days earlier he also delivered a truck full of stuffed animals to a slaughterhouse in Brooklyn.
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