Time Out Sydney scores Banksy coup
Time Out Sydney has pulled off a coup with anonymous graffiti artist Banksy creating a piece of artwork for the cover of the magazine’s next edition.
The file was emailed to the magazine at 4am today. Although the magazine has not yet released the image, Mumbrella understands it feature a trademark Bansky rat.
The magazine will also carry a rare interview with the controversial artist timed to coincide with his first film Exit Through The Gift Shop, being shown at the Sydney Film Festival next month.
Time Out editor Dan Rookwood said: “We’re pretty stoked, and if we’re totally honest, a little surprised too. Banksy, being anonymous, just doesn’t do interviews generally and has never done a cover for any magazine except Time Out London and Time Out New York as far as we’re aware – so this is a real coup for us.”
Good work. Nice get. Banksy also recently did a cover for The Sunday Times Magazine – http://bit.ly/byvIVu
Nice work Time Out
Good coup. Except that some Melbourne council worker will probably try to remove the magazines from the newsstand. When is Time Out Melbourne going to launch?
James,
Coming your way very soon.
http://www.facebook.com/TimeOutMelbourne
Given Time Out Sydney are a media partner for a certain Sydney film festival that is premiering a Banksy doco, I’m not sure how much of a ‘coup’ or ‘get’ this is.
Time Out Sydney finds culture’s cold, coagulated pulse again.
Ouch!
Thanks Clara. Bad day?
There are quite a few partners:
http://sff.org.au/cms/default.asp?contentID=38
But only one Banksy exclusive cover:
http://www.timeoutsydney.com.au/arts/banksy.aspx
I know you’ll buy a copy really.
J
Hi
Great news.
Any chance of a pom getting the limited edition prints? Pretty please!
Cold and coagulated???
I think the successful show in NY and Bristol along with fresh work in london, NY and soon sydney demonstrates that he is the man of the moment, man of the movement.
Looking forward to the scoop
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/ent.....528685.stm
Man of what movement? Street Art? Catch up.
Hi Clara
I have to say referencing a bbc article doesnt really sway my opinion nor add to your argument, although I am not sure what that is exactly????
If you dont like graffiti, fair enough. If you done like the political art, fair enough. If you dont like him (or her) as an artist fair enough.
But cold and coagulated????
His recent NOLA piece in New Orleans and global warming comment in London I think are thought provoking and insightful compared to campaigns with messages of buy an ice cream cos you may get a naked lady with it/get laid! I grant you not all his work is good, but thats the life of an artist, I believe.
Thank you for the reply
H
Clara, if Banksy doesn’t excite you, then perhaps our exclusive interview with Chris Morris (of Brass Eye fame) in the same issue will?
The Banksy cover and interview is something we got off our own backs – and it took months to sort out. However, we have indeed partnered with the Sydney Film Festival for Morris’s film Four Lions, and he is coming out for the premiere which we are presenting. Want to come along?
We try and get behind the city’s major cultural events – it’s what Time Out does.
Um, this is no coup at all – it’s a re-jigged version of the London Time Out interview that ran in March this year.
Banksy’s only Australian interview appears in the Mlebourne newpaper The Age on Saturday May 29.
Hi Dan
any chance i could get one of the prints and mags please? I’m happy to pay for all 6 subscriptions and postage, you can keep the 5 mags and just send me the Banksy stuff, and i’m happy to donate to the charity too, not to much though 🙂
thanks
Del
http://www.smh.com.au/entertai.....-wlcx.html
Oh, look! Its a real exclusive.
Time Out = Weak.
Clara, shouldn’t that read:
Time Out = Week [ahead with their Banksy scoop]
Always embarrassing for newspapers to get scooped by monthly magazines.
Time Out are selling 500 prints of their exclusive Banksy artwork here:
http://www.timeoutsydney.com.au/arts/banksy.aspx
Charity donation from each one.
Dan – I’m based in UK and also after a copy of the magazine and print. What do you think? Can anyone help me with this? Very happy to pay for it.
Time Out interview was rehashed from Time Out NYC and Time Out London – hardly an exclusive
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal