Banksy – Using Art Against Curators

Banksy’s recent caper hanging paintings in four New York museums has those museums worried about security. But “what makes Banksy’s exploits effective as attention-getters, however, is the degree to which he uses the tools of the curators against them. His paintings had ornate frames and the plaques that accompanied them mimicked those found in galleries. ‘He’s using their language, their style of presentation’.”