Banksy's artworks are a perfect commentary not only on the socio-political situation -- Brexit or the refugee crisis, for example -- but also on the way institutions are trying to control the revolutionary power of street art. 。
SEE ALSO:'French Banksy' portrait on the U.S.-Mexico border is a heartbreaking comment on DACA 。His latest murals, which have appeared at the Barbican centre in London, are an ironic take on the centre's latest exhibition of American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, who started as a graffiti artist in New York. 。
"Major new Basquiat show opens at the Barbican -- a place that is normally very keen to clean any graffiti from its walls," Banksy said in the Instagram caption accompanying a pic of his first Barbican mural.。
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The image shows people queuing to get a ticket for a ferris wheel which resembles the London Eye but with the passenger cars transformed into crowns, one of Basquiat's trademarks. 。
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The other mural depicts police officers doing what it seems to be a "stop and search" to a boy which bears a striking resemblance to what is arguably Basquiat's most iconic artwork "Boy and dog in a Johnnypump" while the dog waits behind. 。
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"Portrait of Basquiat being welcomed by the Metropolitan Police -- an (unofficial) collaboration with the new Basquiat show," reads Banksy's comment on Instagram. 。
The Barbican artworks could be considered the artist's first major murals since he painted a gigantic Brexit mural in Dover. That one shows a worker removing a star on the European Union flag. 。
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