{"id":741,"date":"2005-08-04T05:58:57","date_gmt":"2005-08-04T12:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2005\/08\/art_as_the_last_cartel\/"},"modified":"2005-08-04T05:58:57","modified_gmt":"2005-08-04T12:58:57","slug":"art_as_the_last_cartel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/art_as_the_last_cartel.php","title":{"rendered":"Art as the &#8216;last cartel&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fun article in this month&#8217;s <i>Wired<\/i> magazine explores the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/13.08\/bansky.html\">life and work of Bansky<\/a>, a self-described &#8221;art terrorist&#8221; who, among other accomplishments, snuck his works into four of New York&#8217;s major museums in a single day. Says Bansky:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\n&#8221;Art&#8217;s the last of the great cartels&#8230;.A handful of people make it, a handful buy it, and a handful show it. But the millions of people who go look at it don&#8217;t have a say.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He claims a major motivation of his work, in the high arts and elsewhere, is to &#8220;show that money hasn&#8217;t crushed the humanity out of everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fun article in this month&#8217;s Wired magazine explores the life and work of Bansky, a self-described &#8221;art terrorist&#8221; who, among other accomplishments, snuck his works into four of New York&#8217;s major museums in a single day. Says Bansky: &#8221;Art&#8217;s the last of the great cartels&#8230;.A handful of people make it, a handful buy it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}