Death Of Melbourne As Art Leader

The big buzz on the web today is the article British contemporary artists Bansky wrote for the Guardian blasting the Mebourne city council for removing street art from the city to clean it up for the Commonwealth Games. Banksy says:

[It] is not to say that every city should aim to look like the south Bronx, or that regeneration cannot be a good thing, but society’s headlong march into bland conformity should not necessarily be welcomed with such open arms.

Wooster Collective: Banksy Takes on The Melbourne Street Art Scene In Today’s Guardian