Banksy

Rolling Stone magazine have released their list of the top 100 movers and shakers agents of change (movers n shakers). Banksy himself made the list this year at number 72.

From Rolling Stone;

WHAT HE'S CHANGING: Combining graffiti art with a culture-jamming sensibility — painting a hole on a West Bank security wall, illicitly hanging a "Mona Lisa" with a smiley face in the Louvre — the man who is reportedly named Robin or Robert Banks has made art dangerous again. He remains stubbornly anonymous despite his infamy.

FRIENDS SAY: "The streets are boring," artist Damien Hirst has said. "So anyone like Banksy who makes them entertaining and treats people like people instead of consumers is brilliant."

KEY QUOTE: "You know what hip-hop has done with the word 'nigger'? I'm trying to do that with the word 'vandalism': bring it back."