It's more to do with the fact that he's a radicalist, a self-declared "art terrorist", which makes me beg the question as to whether he has "sold out".
The NY Times apparently considered it too
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Originally Posted by NY Times
Such a show — complete with advance publicity, an opening party with valet parking and Hollywood glitterati, including Jude Law and his posse, and sales of numbered prints at $500 each — would seem to go against Banksy’s rebel image.
“Yes, there probably is some contradiction,” Banksy’s spokesman, Simon Munnery, said on Thursday in an interview at the warehouse in a commercial district east of downtown. (Details on the exhibition site can be found at www.banksy.co.uk.)
“It depends on what he does with the money, right?” Mr. Munnery added. “Maybe he makes more art. Maybe he’s getting more ambitious.”
source: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/16/ar...gn/16bank.html (subscription) |