According to this ebay auction, Banksy is about to be identified in less than 31 hours from now. The auction has had 38 bids and the current high bid is $999,999.00.
My question to you: Do you think this is real? Would you even want to know?
Auction has been pulled. I am inclined to believe it was Bansky selling his own identity...and he probably had the highest bid also...sort of a mock on the the idea of the need to know the artist identity?
It very well might be real. I imagine as his profile has risen over the last few years it has become harder and harder to hide his identity. I think decades from now when the guy has retired it would be interesting to know more about the man behind the work. I find it shitty that some douchbag is going to make a ton of money for outing the guy.
Supposing this auction were real, and supposing Banksy was going to reveal himself to the winner . . . how, as the winner, would you really even know if you were being introduced to the real artist? Who's to say that Banksy wouldn't send in a ringer as a giant art prank?
In any event, the whole thing smacks of Banksy's off-the-wall humor and here we are yet again talking about him.
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