{"id":3273,"date":"2012-01-24T09:11:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T16:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/01\/2012-virgin-banksy\/"},"modified":"2012-01-25T09:16:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T16:16:00","slug":"2012-virgin-banksy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/24\/2012-virgin-banksy\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Virgin Banksy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/unbeige\/first-banksy-of-2012-spotted-in-what-might-be-the-artists-most-prolific-year_b19210\" target=\"_blank\">from MediaBistro&#8217;s UNBEIGE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>First Banksy of 2012 Spotted in What Might be the Artist\u2019s Most Prolific Year<\/h1>\n<p class=\"byline\" style=\"margin-top: -4px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #999999; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px\">By Steve Delahoyde on January 24, 2012 10:54 AM<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/unbeige\/files\/2012\/01\/1224bankfirst.jpg\" title=\"1224bankfirst\" width=\"225\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19212\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; float: right; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px\">You may have considered either 2010 or 2011 to have been the year(s) that popular street artist\u00a0<strong style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Banksy<\/strong>\u00a0possibly hit his career high, becoming a near-household name with his documentary,\u00a0<em style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><strong style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Exit Through the Gift Shop<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and then, later, its Oscar nomination. However, with the 2012 Olympics soon arriving in his native England, some are speculating that this could be Banksy\u2019s most prolific year. As such, spotters are on the lookout and they have recently found\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artlyst.com\/articles\/new-banksy-appears-in-kentish-town-london\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" target=\"_blank\">perhaps the first piece by the artist this year<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"quotes: none\"><p>It appears to have all of the hallmarks of a real painting by the artist and would be the first new year offering by Banksy. 2012 the Olympic year is expected to be a big year for the artist as all eyes are now focused on the capital.. The stencil turned up on the corner of an office building on Oval Street in Kentish Town (near Camden Town) and many followers of the street artist have already identified the painting as a Banksy. It possesses all of the his irreverent stencil features including a distinctly political statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/unbeige\/first-banksy-of-2012-spotted-in-what-might-be-the-artists-most-prolific-year_b19210\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at MediaBistro.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from MediaBistro&#8217;s UNBEIGE First Banksy of 2012 Spotted in What Might be the Artist\u2019s Most Prolific Year By Steve Delahoyde on January 24, 2012 10:54 AM You may have considered either 2010 or 2011 to have been the year(s) that popular street artist\u00a0Banksy\u00a0possibly hit his career high, becoming a near-household name with his documentary,\u00a0Exit Through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}