We can’t help but post about the latest and greatest works by well-known British graffiti artist, Banksy. But what really caught our attention was his latest venture into the glitzy commercial pop-art world – his work nudging the likes of pop-art icon Andy Warhol & absurdly bedazzled skull-creator, Damien Hirst over at the Fabrik Gallery in Hong Kong. Thing is, we never thought Banksy was the gallery-toting type (and neither do some writers of his wikipedia entry, “Banksy does not sell photos of street graffiti or mount exhibitions of screenprints in commercial galleries.[6]”).
Others say the real art-travesties are being committed in Paris. The Independent reports that the underground, beautiful and very old art, graffiti and posters within the Paris Metro are getting scrubbed clean by the over-zealous subway-renovators.
Almost complete, though tattered, posters exist in some places. In others, there are fragments of layer after layer of old advertisements, forming works of abstract art which might easily command €1m (£800,000) at Sothebys or Christies.
Does this mean we’ll be seeing walls with Banksy’s art getting stolen today and power-washed in 30 years? Let’s hope not.
