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Wow if his stand was near MOMA I probably walked right by it yesterday without noticing... I usually just ignore vendors around the park because 99% of the stuff being sold in that area is mass produced crap that has no value but to extract money from tourists.

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and that's the art.

Well, also...he's messing with the people who value his stuff at ridiculous prices, but can't pick it out of a lineup.

This is great not because it was anonymous (that was just a requirement -- if it weren't, he'd have been swamped by idiots), but because it illustrates the fundamental absurdity of the art "scene". It's a nice bit of mockery.

If you listen to his audio commentaries (most of his pieces in http://www.banksyny.com/ have a commentary on the page), he pokes fun at himself and at pretentious commentaries that often accompany art pieces.

Reminds me of this experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Bell#Washington_Post_ex...

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