Geting Started
Getting Started
- by John Mansfield
- June 4, 2026
Getting started
Category – Dutch Masters
Banksy strikes again — and the Dutch masters would have understood why
On appropriation, anonymity and the gift of the unexpected
- by John Mansfield
- May 22, 2026
Last week a new work appeared overnight on a wall in Islington, London — a rat in a beret, holding a tiny golden frame around a patch of genuine nineteenth-century wallpaper. Banksy, characteristically, said nothing. The Dutch masters, I suspect, would have understood completely.