How did Banksy erect a statue in Central London?

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000152.

Click on the actual link you get the article up front. Click on this and have to jump through capture hell then the site hardly loads.

The article is walled behind a login/subscription, the archive loaded perfectly fine.

The bbc.com article had 88 requests to third-party services (blocked) and took 12.6 MB to load.

The archive had 1 request to a third-party service (blocked), and took 2.02 MB to load.

Not for me. The actual article was much better.

When I click the actual link I get a paywall.

"Dress up. Leave a false name. Be legendary. The best Poetic Terrorism is against the law, but don’t get caught. Art as crime; crime as art." -- T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism, 1985

The whole piece is great - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/hakim-bey-t-a-z-the-...

Or if you have 5 mins to spare, the album version with Bill Laswell is even better - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt9vMF01Pd8