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FAD magazine, Jan 17, 2025
On January 20th, 2025, coinciding with the 60th Presidential Inauguration Ceremony of Donald Trump, artist Ben Turnbull, in collaboration with Candidate Q, unveil their guerrilla intervention, 1/6/21, in New York City.
Inspiring City, Dec 19, 2024
British artist Ben Turnbull has unveiled MAGABUCK in Philadelphia. It features a US dollar bill made from collages of vintage comics collected over decades. It explores themes of power, corruption, and history. All reflecting on America’s complex identity while also acting as a warning.
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The Daily Heller, Dec 11, 2024
Artist Ben Turnbull and his alter-ego Q, both Londoners, unveiled a large-scale guerilla wild-posting, MAGABUCK, in the capital of American independence, Philadelphia, on December 1. The multi-sheet poster depicts a dollar bill, and a collage of vintage comics they have collected over decades. Themes of corruption, power, and cyclical history reflect America’s complex identity and MAGABUCK symbolizes the commodification of power and jingoism. The work invites viewers to reflect on their relationship with these themes.
A veteran street artist, Turnbull reflects on the nation’s new unsettling, normal reality, with the MAGA phenomenon and the resurgence of extremist ideologies echoing in all corners of the land. MAGABUCK draws chilling parallels to D.W. Griffith’s 1915 Birth of a Nation, a “classic” film that, when it was released, mythologized Jim Crow and legitimized white supremacy. It was President Woodrow Wilson’s favorite film to show to his guests at the White House. Turnbull’s MAGABUCK is a counter-narrative.
