Banksy Takes Aim At “Spineless” New World Trade Centre In Rejected NY Times Op-Ed


For his next trick as part of a topical, month-long artist residency in New York, mild-mannered doodler Banksy was planning on publishing a scathing op-ed column in the Sunday edition of The New York Times lambasting the new World Trade Centre as a mediocre, shy, Canadian and vanilla indictment on the current mindset of a nerveless New York City. 
The Grey Lady, however, begged to differ, declining – as is their wont and motto – to publish what they see as news unfit to print. 
Writes Banksy on his dedicated website, Better Out Than In, “Today’s piece was going to be an op-ed column in the New York Times.
But they declined to publish what I supplied. Which was this…
As an alternative, Banksy unveiled in Greenpoint a white-on-grey stencil which reads as follows:
On day fifteen of his New York sojourn, Banksy gifted unto already inflated Tribeca real-estate prices a mural in miniature, pictured above, of a pre-9/11 Manhattan skyline punctured with an orange chrysanthemum at the point of impact on the North Tower. 
In some cultures, an orange chrysanthemum is a symbol of death and mourning; in others, it signifies life. 
In some cultures, publishing an edgy op-ed column denigrating a memorial is a symbol of being a jerk; in others, it signifies art. ¯_(-_-)_/¯
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