So for the main it's Banksy street pieces that get nicked, which these days is particuarly stupid as you'll never get authentication so only someone very stupid would ever buy it. Having said that it's always heartwarming to be reminded of man's inherent greed and what it looks like in action:-
http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/how-to-steal-banksy-work-from-its-original-street-location
This is pretty absurd too... http://www.camdennewjournal.com/news/2011/sep/cctv-images-reveal-series-attacks-boy-blowing-bubbles
ReplyDeleteEduardo Bertone · Madrid, SpainYou just have to go to the British Museum, you will know that it´s been done for thousands years...
ReplyDeleteNot really thousands of years. Most of the stuff in the British Museum was collected in the Victorian era. The issue isn't so much that it goes on or not though, but rather if the stuff was actually worth hacking out of the wall in the first place. You can't really compare the masterpieces of ancient Greek and Egyptian art with a shitty cartoon kiddy-level stencil.
ReplyDeleteSeems like Banksy's people are making thinly veiled threats... http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/hacked-off-the-art-show-thats-driven-banksy-up-the-wall-2348433.html
ReplyDelete"Fuelling the controversy is Pest Control, an organisation that is the nearest thing the reclusive British artist has to official representation. In a statement to Artnet magazine, it claimed that only one of the six pieces in the Keszler show had been formally authenticated as Banksy's work, and admonished the gallery for removing them from their original setting."We have warned Mr Keszler [the gallery's owner] of the serious implications of selling unauthenticated works, but he seems to not care," read their statement. "We have no doubt that these works will come back to haunt Mr Keszler."
desperate, sad people trying to bask in the light of Banksy's fading glory. whatever next!?
ReplyDeletehe's played the people for suckers with his pr machine, and now he's having his career slowly eroded by all the idiots he helped create.
how's that for an example of irony Mr. Banks?!