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"The Glory Days of New York are Gone," says Banksy as the NYT rejects his Op-Ed
Banksy has used his latest piece of artwork in New York to criticize the mediocre design of the new World Trade Center and claim its construction is symbolic of the city losing its nerve.
On Sunday, the artist posted an opinion piece on his website, 'Better Out Than In,' and said that his essay had been rejected by the New York Times.
The latest addition to the collection which he describes as 'an artist's residency on the streets of New York' is a wall mural in Greenpoint that reads: This site contains blocked messages in reference to the op-ed he says was rejected.
Banksy's rejected New York Times' op-ed piece, which the graffiti artist published instead on his personal website. He introduced the piece by saying, 'Today's piece was going to be an op-ed column in the New York Times. But they declined to publish what I supplied. Which was this...'
The artist has been in the city for a number of weeks now, leaving pieces of art in all five boroughs in a series called 'Better Out Than In'.
Among the most recent is an 'alternative New York bumper slogan' and graffiti paintings, the most recent of which is 'Hell's Kitchen'.
Banksy titled the essay, 'The biggest eyesore in New York is not the graffiti, argues Banksy, it's under construction at Ground Zero.' In the piece he renames the tower, 'Shyscraper.'
The British artist goes on to argues that One World Trade is 'a one thousand foot tall sign that reads - New York - we lost our nerve.'
'It would be easy to view One World Trade Center as a betrayal of everyone who lost their lives on September 11th, because it so clearly proclaims the terrorists won,' Banks writes in his rejected op-ed.
'Those 10 men have condemned us to live in a world more mediocre than the one they attacked, rather than be the catalyst for a dazzling new one.'
The elusive artist also states that: 'One World Trade Center is a non-event. It's vanilla. It looks like something they would build in Canada.'
On his website, Banksy wrote: 'Today's piece was going to be an op-ed column in the New York Times.
'But they declined to publish what I supplied. Which was this...'
Banksy has used his latest piece of artwork in New York to criticize the mediocre design of the new World Trade Center and claim its construction is symbolic of the city losing its nerve.
On Sunday, the artist posted an opinion piece on his website, 'Better Out Than In,' and said that his essay had been rejected by the New York Times.
The latest addition to the collection which he describes as 'an artist's residency on the streets of New York' is a wall mural in Greenpoint that reads: This site contains blocked messages in reference to the op-ed he says was rejected.
Banksy's rejected New York Times' op-ed piece, which the graffiti artist published instead on his personal website. He introduced the piece by saying, 'Today's piece was going to be an op-ed column in the New York Times. But they declined to publish what I supplied. Which was this...'
The artist has been in the city for a number of weeks now, leaving pieces of art in all five boroughs in a series called 'Better Out Than In'.
Among the most recent is an 'alternative New York bumper slogan' and graffiti paintings, the most recent of which is 'Hell's Kitchen'.
Banksy titled the essay, 'The biggest eyesore in New York is not the graffiti, argues Banksy, it's under construction at Ground Zero.' In the piece he renames the tower, 'Shyscraper.'
The British artist goes on to argues that One World Trade is 'a one thousand foot tall sign that reads - New York - we lost our nerve.'
'It would be easy to view One World Trade Center as a betrayal of everyone who lost their lives on September 11th, because it so clearly proclaims the terrorists won,' Banks writes in his rejected op-ed.
'Those 10 men have condemned us to live in a world more mediocre than the one they attacked, rather than be the catalyst for a dazzling new one.'
The elusive artist also states that: 'One World Trade Center is a non-event. It's vanilla. It looks like something they would build in Canada.'
On his website, Banksy wrote: 'Today's piece was going to be an op-ed column in the New York Times.
'But they declined to publish what I supplied. Which was this...'
