How did Banksy erect a statue in Central London?

How did Banksy erect a statue in Central London?(bbc.co.uk)

79 points by monooso 16 days ago | 7 comments

tomhow 14 days ago |

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000152.

bnc319 14 days ago |

ifh-hn 14 days ago | |

Click on the actual link you get the article up front. Click on this and have to jump through capture hell then the site hardly loads.

infinite_spin 14 days ago | | |

The article is walled behind a login/subscription, the archive loaded perfectly fine.

The bbc.com article had 88 requests to third-party services (blocked) and took 12.6 MB to load.

The archive had 1 request to a third-party service (blocked), and took 2.02 MB to load.

raldi 14 days ago | | |

When I click the actual link I get a paywall.

bigiain 14 days ago |

"Dress up. Leave a false name. Be legendary. The best Poetic Terrorism is against the law, but don’t get caught. Art as crime; crime as art." -- T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism, 1985

The whole piece is great - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/hakim-bey-t-a-z-the-...

Or if you have 5 mins to spare, the album version with Bill Laswell is even better - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt9vMF01Pd8