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The Mystery Man Behind the Internet-Famous Cookie Monster Mural Says He Will Auction the Original Drawing for Charity Will Fake Nate become the Midwest Banksy? Has he already? This image was tweeted at midnight on Wednesday morning by @Arterrorizm, publicizing a Christmas Day charity auction. On Christmas Day, an artwork that has been at the center of one of the year’s greatest art mysteries will go on the auction block. It’s the capstone to a saga that has gripped a nation. A mural based on the drawing of Cookie Monster, which appeared briefly on the side of a commercial building in Peor...

Courtesy Joshua Hawkins. An unassuming Illinois city has become the site of a captivating art mystery. And this one has nothing to do with monoliths. At the center of the drama is the question of who paid local artist Joshua Hawkins to paint a Soviet art-style mural depicting Cookie Monster on the side of a building while posing as the building’s owner, a man named Nate Comte. Since the actual (and enraged) Nate Comte discovered the prank and whitewashed the mural, the wall where it stood has become a site of pilgrimage. It has been graffitied with the message “f*ck real Nate” (that’s...