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NoodleyAppendage

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5. I don't see what the big deal is

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 09:46 PM

Feb 2013

The artwork, while cool, is graffiti by definition. If the person who removed it owned the building, then technically it was theirs to do with it what they will. It was better that they removed it for sale than to just paint over it.

And, I would add that the removal has had the secondary benefit of the appearance of even more apparent Bansky work!

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'Stolen' Banksy mural withdrawn from sale at U.S. auction house following storm of protest [View all] dipsydoodle Feb 2013 OP

Interesting. secondvariety Feb 2013 #1

Maybe dressed as repairmen, with the mural covered so it just looks like construction work? McCamy Taylor Feb 2013 #2

Behind tarpaulin (which is, I believe, how Banksy usually works) muriel_volestrangler Feb 2013 #3

All that was really necessary here dipsydoodle Feb 2013 #4

Why would, or should, Banksy deny his art as being his? GReedDiamond Feb 2013 #7

He gives his work freely dipsydoodle Feb 2013 #8

He also sells his work... GReedDiamond Feb 2013 #12

I don't see what the big deal is NoodleyAppendage Feb 2013 #5

As I read it, they didn't just remove the graffiti. SwissTony Feb 2013 #10

I always guess Banksy is behind it, anytime he is in the news. Exultant Democracy Feb 2013 #6

not in this case. not his style. frylock Feb 2013 #13

'stealing' his own art to sell it. It seems like his style of guerrilla self publicity Exultant Democracy Feb 2013 #15

"Frederic Thut, owner of Fine Art Auctions Miami" should have contacted Banksy himself and asked idwiyo Feb 2013 #9

This. Earth_First Feb 2013 #11

i don't think one just contacts Banksy.. frylock Feb 2013 #14

One contacts his agent. I'd think an art gallery would at least attempt to verify that artwork was idwiyo Feb 2013 #16