Banksy

• Graffiti has become so mainstream in recent years that auction houses, museums and entire art shows cater to street art connoisseurs and collectors around the world.
• In cities around the world, graffiti is now associated with “street artists” rather than violent street gangs.
• Some up-and-coming neighborhoods in cities like Dakar, Senegal; Mexico City; Brisbane, Australia; and Seoul, South Korea offer street art tours and host graffiti festivals.

The history of tagging

• I started tagging, or illegally writing my name — Cisco CBS — on surfaces across Los Angeles in the early 1990s.
• Law enforcement didn’t seem to understand what the writing on walls meant or who was behind those cryptic images and personal monikers.
• While physical displacement was being experienced firsthand by long-standing residents, the transformation of the walls in these communities symbolized a broader cultural change.
• By the early 2000s, politically neutral street art images replaced depictions of social struggle, Chicano/a history, and community life.

Graffiti made legit

• By 2011, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles hosted the first-ever museum survey of street art and graffiti.
• In it, I analyzed how graffiti writers such as Eyeone, Mear and Cache were navigating the legal, social, economic and cultural shift taking place in Los Angeles.
• Just outside the museum gallery, the newly branded Arts District soon welcomed muralists and graffiti writers from around the world.

Urban blight or community history

• These wall artists’ styles were often maligned by city leaders, business owners and wealthy Anglos.
• No longer does the writing on the walls signal blight and disorder.

• The genre-defining sculpture is being 'tokenized' into 500 separate parts which will go on sale on June 16th on the Particle website .
• It has been exhibited at prominent art centers such as the ICA Miami and Praz-Delavallade Gallery in LA.
• Co-owners will obtain subsequent voting rights on whether to sell the sculpture, should an offer be made on it.
• They will also be loaning the sculpture to the Particle Foundation, who will tour the work around the world.

• 'Dream Boat' was initially unveiled at Banksy's 2015 Dismaland art pop-up in the seaside resort town of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England.
• It was part of a functioning coin-operated game where guests could guide police boats to chase the 'Dream Boat,' a nearly 1 meter-long sculpture of a boat overflowing with individually painted refugees.
• The sculpture would be won by the person who would provide the closest guess to the sculpture's actual weight.
• "Dream Boat" by Banksy will be offered for sale as part of the S16 collection on show at Context Miami from Nov. 29 to Dec. 4, 2022.

• People Reign will enable artists to work in teams, explore the limitless possibilities of NFTs and receive more exposure for their work.
• It allows artists to create content for the metaverses of the future and connect with more potential patrons and sources of relevance.
• People Reign's first NFT art drop will be in early June, following its launch party on May 27, 2022.
• People Reign is working with approximately 20 artists and intends to expand to more than 50.