148 Starter: One word only

The exercise was created 2026-04-15 by 20STORM00. Question count: 12.

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  • The Story Behind Banksy On his way to becoming an international icon, the subversive and secretive street artist turned the art world upside-down. When Time magazine (1) selected the British artist Banksy - graffiti master, painter, activist, filmmaker and all-purpose...
  • ... provocateur - for its (2) list of the world's 100 most influential people in 2010, he found himself in the company of Barack Obama, Steve Jobs and Lady Gaga.
  • He supplied a picture of himself with a paper bag (recyclable, naturally) (3 over his head.
  • Most of his fans don't really want to know who he is (and have loudly protested at newspaper journalists' (4) attempts to unmask him).
  • But they do want to follow his upward trajectory from the outlaw "bombing" (i.e. spraying) - walls in Bristol, England, during the 1990s to the artist (5) whose work commands hundreds of thousands of dollars in the auction houses of Britain and America.
  • Today, he has bombed cities from Vienna to San Francisco, Barcelona to Paris and Detroit. And he has (6) moved from graffiti on gritty urban walls to paint on canvas, conceptual ...
  • ... sculpture and even film, with his documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop even (7) being nominated for an Academy Award.
  • 'Pest Control', the tongue-in-cheek-titled organization (8) set up by the artist to authenticate the real Banksy artwork, also protects him from prying outsiders.
  • Hiding behind a paper bag, or, more commonly, e-mail, Banksy relentlessly controls his own narrative. His last face-to-face interview took (9) place in 2003.
  • While he may shelter behind a concealed identity, he advocates a direct connection (10) between an artist and his constituency. "There's a whole new audience out there, and it's never been easier to sell [one's art]," Banksy has maintained.
  • "You don't have to go to college, drag'round a portfolio, mail off transparencies to snooty galleries or sleep with someone powerful, all you need now is a few ideas and a broadban connection .
  • This is the first time the essentially bourgeois world of art has (12) belonged to the people. We need to make it count." (Extract from The Story Behind Banksy by Will Ellsworth-Jones, Smithsonian Magazine February 2013)

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