![]() ![]() ![]() On Monday morning, less than 24 hours after Banksy’s Toronto pieces appeared, a British PR agent was beating the media bushes with news of Banksy’s latest guerilla works: “His first in Canada, ever!” she said, repeatedly, in an interview yesterday. A user called Pe Kenia Grande asked: “Do you think it’s really him? Or just someone trying to promote his movie. Responses were skeptical: “I am not so convinced these are Banksy works. ![]() W., posted a handful of photos of Banksy-esque works - cartoonishly grim black and white figures, darkly comic non-sequiturs - on various walls here. It started as a rumour Sunday: Had Banksy touched down in Toronto? Was it an imitator? A prank?įirst, on Facebook, Simon Cole, who owns Show & Tell Gallery on Dundas St. It must have felt like old times for Banksy, the otherwise anonymous Brit who’s become the international brand name of subversive street art in the last decade or so. ![]()
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