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From: Simeon Banner Category: Art Date: 05 October 2006 Time: 06:26 PM Review: I totally concur that Banksy is utterly without any real substance and it's embarrassingly so. I guess to the American art world that's not the point. It is a kind of banality of subversion. When you think about some figure daubed on the wall of house in Northern Ireland you shudder to think of the loyalties and associations those images evoke. Banksy looks and feels to me like advertising for Carhart clothes or some skating attire. A marketing fantasy of urban edginess. The greatest aspect of the artist is realizing that you have to create mystique so he doesn't want anybody to know what he looks like. Maybe he's ashamed at how crap his work is. Not that any of this matters. Maybe he's superficial and he's making money so what's my problem.