latest Banksy piece removed
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The latest Banksy piece has been removed by a club next door to be sold to save the club from closure! What do people think? Art, vandalism, finders keepers?
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-27033079
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-27033079
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But the bottom line is, he is a vandal, and whatever he paints on buildings is owned by whoevers building it was painted on.
They stole it
Either way, I much prefer the new one in Cheltenham that popped up the other day around a phone box. It's really quite a clever effort.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-27021675
See that's really cool, I like that!
Can you steal 'vandalism'? Surely they have done society a favour by 'cleaning' it up? And the club gets saved at the same time! Win win all round!
Great isn't it!
Is that why the Club is now calming ownership?
No, they aren't hiding the fact at all that they have taken it to sell! No one owns it so finders keepers!
Can't see Banish suing though the Law says different about finder's keepers.
If it's just writing, or gang names, fair enough. But Banksy's pieces actually have some meaning, and the more art we have the better in this corporate controlled white washed world.
My problem now is people profiting from his art. Art should be free for all.
Its a shame in a way that Banksy's work is so often damaged, but then it is ethereal in its nature - removing it from its "natural" environment could be seen as vandalism itself.
I suppose it depends on if you like his work or not - ignoring the monetary value I'd still be happy to have a Banksy on my wall if he fancies daubing somewhere in Nottingham:)
The Boys Club were on local TV last night and it seems they basically stole the piece, as the wood it was on was attached to a wall but the wall wasn't owned by The Boys Club! They seem to think that selling it to "save" The Boys Club makes it perfectly OK to take such actions!
I went to the Banksy exhibition @ Bristol Museum in 2009 and it was brilliant, much of it was both very. clever and very funny.
How can you steal graffiti? It's just mess.
Whether you personally like it has no bearing on whether it's capable of being stolen.
Those who are all its free art and has been stolen should get over themselves and think of the good the piece is now doing. The fact bankys art is a social commentry and peoples selfish attitude towards it being stolen - speaks volumes
If Banksy wanted to donate to this guy's club, he could have. This is just theft, no matter how you dress it up.
They got there first, that's all can can be said.
It's no good saying "it should have been left for everyone to enjoy" because that's just bloody naive, such a view only works if everyone else in the work feels the same. You may as well claim that everyone in the country should put their wages in a big pot and everyone could then take out what they needed when they needed and only as much as they needed. That isn't the world we live in.
I figure there are worse people in the world who could have ended up with the money...that investment fund manager could have taken a day off from dodging the BR fare in order to crowbar it off for example.
You think Banksy should have created a piece and framed it and left it with a bow and a note? It's not his style.
He never paints on wood, he never paints on anything removable - so why now, when there was a perfectly good wall nearby. If someone thinks they own the wood/door and challenges the club, fair enough - but all this 'it's free, it's for the public' outrage is nonsense, if it was on someone's front gate... It would be on eBay in minutes.