More of Banksy’s protest art has reportedly been spotted, this time in Brooklyn.
Two murals that mirror the elusive British graffiti artist’s style and anti-capitalist message were seen Friday on a site slated for redevelopment in Midwood.
One of the stenciled artworks depicts a suited man in a construction hat cracking a whip over a group of running children and adults. The whip mimics a line graph, like the ones used in business presentations.
The second mural, on an outer wall of a closed gas station nearby, shows a black seal balancing an orange ball on its nose. Neighbors say the circle was not actually drawn by Banksy: It used to be the Mobil gas logo.
The tags were first noticed Friday afternoon and photos began circulating on social media. Banksy obsessives are certain the art belongs to the radical artist. But the Banksy Instagram account, the artist’s official method for claiming his work, has yet to post a photo of the murals.
Banksy made an epic return to Manhattan last week with a 70-foot-long work on the Houston Bowery Wall, featuring 272 black hash marks and a call to free Turkish-Kurdish artist Zehra Dogğan, who was jailed last year for her painting of a war-torn Kurdish town with Turkey’s flag flying over it. A billboard of Dogğan’s painting sits above the graffiti.
Banksy also stenciled a giant rat running inside the clockface atop the iconic bank building at the corner of Sixth Avenue and 14th Street. The West Village structure will be torn down to make way for a 13-story condo building.
Another mural was also spotted in Harlem.
