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March 10th, 2010

The Contradiction of Contradiction: A Conversation with Banksy

“The thing I hate most about advertising is that it attracts all the young, bright, creative people, leaving us with only the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.”

- Banksy …more

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Billy Bliss worked at Bonhams and Butterfields selling paintings and books and has taught art history at Lake Tahoe College, the University of Montana, through the Museum of Modern Art in New York and at the University of Iowa, where he is currently pursuing a PhD in art history.

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