BANK was an artists' group active in London during the 1990s. Simon Bedwell and David Burrows were involved with it.
BANK also published a satirical magazine delivering tabloid-style critiques of the art world. Headlines included, "AD MAN YOU’RE A BAD MAN," and, "GALLERIES 'ALL OWNED BY RICH PEOPLE' SHOCK." Other "frankly adolescent" headlines were "ARSE COUNCIL", "SIMON PATTERSON – ONE IDEA, EIGHT YEARS", "CARRY ON CURATING", "PIPPA-LOTTA-RIST-ACTION" and "SAM-TAYLOR WOULD-NOT"Matthew Collings, Art Crazy Nation, 21 Publishing Ltd., 2001, pp. 36–37.
Julian Stallabrass said BANK's activity was "the parodic creation of corporate identity at the centre of which (as their name suggests) is a noisy and constant reference to that matter of which the art world usually whispers: money."Julian Stallabrass, High Art Lite: British Art in the Nineties, Verso, 1999. pp. 69–70. They had, according to Matthew Collings, a "surly, self-destructive, self-conscious, introspective attitude – combined...with critical intelligence and a flair for spotting weaknesses in the art system".Matthew Collings, Art Crazy Nation, 21 Publishing Ltd., 2001, pp95.
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BANK timeline 'Robert Prime gallery got BANK’d. Stephen Friedman gallery got BANK’d', ADP magazine, 4 November 2009.