Banksy

I agree, even if he has sold out a bit - fair play to him, he's a thought evoking artist in my opinion
he should ditch that Westwood though - now there is a cock if ever I saw one.

I always get confused by this assertion that Banksy has "sold out"
How can one who makes no financial gain from his art be deemed a sell out?
Banksy has kept his identity hidden. Even if caught on camera, his publicist / agent has clearly been given explicit instruction to neither confirm or deny his actual identity.
Playing devil's advocate - You could say that this in keeping with an excellent marketing ploy - unless you take into account he has never actually sold his work or his prints its others who have capitalised on his work.

Even in the books where he is the subject he is not the one gaining from their sale. (I would expect that he would have good lawyers and be getting something for the use of his images - but i suspect that he is not). Just because what you do gets you noticed doesn't mean you are a sell out.. so celebs have purchased his work.. you can bet the reseller didn't give any to the artist.

In the end you just have to accept that the man's work is being celebrated - which would have happened with or without his trying to make that happen simply becuase it appeals to a wide audience (and he'd done so in a number of countries).

I think he's quite intelligent. He makes simple pictoral statements of mass appeal about the state of our political landscape and socially dictated encumberments.
Can you do that??