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Poster Boy
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His flair for remixing subway advertisements into strident polemics on late capitalism has drawn an enthusiastic following.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/banksy-brooklyn"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.moreintelligentlife.com/img/911B9095-3E89-443A-AF7A-92093E6DB4AF" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/banksy-brooklyn">"Matisse of subway-ad mash-ups," as <EM>New York</EM> magazine <A href="http://nymag.com/arts/art/profiles/50969/" linkindex="18">approvingly dubbed</A> him</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/banksy-brooklyn">Poster Boy's mystique has come largely from his anonymity</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/banksy-brooklyn"> Perhaps best of all, his work is preciously transient: Transit Authority staff often paper over it within days, if not hours.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/banksy-brooklyn"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.moreintelligentlife.com/img/C8C2DAE9-CD53-4B4C-8514-294A03A60FF9" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/banksy-brooklyn">Poster Boy's <A href="http://nymag.com/news/features/39319/" linkindex="28">creative underclass</A> credentials are impeccable</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/banksy-brooklyn">"No matter what I do to the piece," he told <EM>New York </EM>magazine, "as long as I did something to those advertisements and that saturation, it’s political. 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