<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4e7945f1-e19f-4f4a-a5c7-0de92a1fef85/A89D9557-D27C-4D7B-BF2E-ED31BFA8EC24/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/Banksy/banksy_sweep_it_under_the_carpet.htm" href="http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/Banksy/banksy_sweep_it_under_the_carpet.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.artofthestate.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/Banksy/banksy_sweep_it_under_the_carpet.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.artofthestate.co.uk/img/1DB1BA86-7108-49A4-BA5E-6AA501D24630" alt="Banksy Sweeping It Under The Carpet" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/Banksy/banksy_sweep_it_under_the_carpet.htm"><FONT size="1" face="Arial">Banksy Sweeping It Under The Carpet</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/Banksy/banksy_sweep_it_under_the_carpet.htm"><FONT size="2" face="Trebuchet MS" color="#ffffff">Just for the record the Independent newspaper initially claimed that another version of this was 'commissioned' by them to appear at the junction of Regents Park Road and Chalk Farm Road. This has since been retracted by the Independent and absolutely refuted on Banksy's website: "Banksy does not do graffiti commissions for national newspapers and is unlikely to start at any point in the near future". </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/Banksy/banksy_sweep_it_under_the_carpet.htm"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">Banksy explained the meaning behind the pictures: "In the bad old days, it was only popes and princes who had the money to pay for their portraits to be painted,</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/Banksy/banksy_sweep_it_under_the_carpet.htm"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">This is a portrait of a maid called Leanne who cleaned my room in a Los Angeles motel. She was quite a feisty lady."</FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A89D9557-D27C-4D7B-BF2E-ED31BFA8EC24/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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