[Va Va Voom]

Banksy Old School street work on clerkenwell road,boarded up for over a week now,another one bites the dust.
Cant see how they will remove this as the render was in pretty bad shape......f**king joke.

[Sherlock Holmes]

Won't be long before the only the way to see evidence of his street work is in a book

[pseudo]

isn't that the nature of the game though? once it's out there, it's fair game....

[Simococo]

the one off city road is boarded up too, if it hasn't been mentioned already

[simongoff]

missing said:

Banksy Old School street work on clerkenwell road,boarded up for over a week now,another one bites the dust.
Cant see how they will remove this as the render was in pretty bad shape......f**king joke.

I noticed this this morning

[mammal2]

I don't think its being moved. They are currently touching the work up, so i do suspect it will become part of a development ala Mild Mild West.

[BK83]

I dont think anyone wants to see it being touched up either. The beauty of this art is that it ages with the street....

[monstris]

jaypaav said:

I dont think anyone wants to see it being touched up either. The beauty of this art is that it ages with the street....

Aye...I think that, my boy, is what is called "the point".
You can't mollycoddle Banksy's work just because he's a bit of a face these days.
Doesn't stop one from fucking up some idiot's attempts at eBaying their wall though ;D ;D ;D

[slowmo]

definitely looked like someone with a paint brush in there last week, but the smell was like something hot, so maybe they are cutting it out.

[hobgoblin]

his studio is some where near this

[johnnyh]

Couple of weird arguments on this.
Its painted on someones wall so to be fair its up to them what they do with it. Unfortunately thats life.

Now no one wants to see them disapear with the exception of Banksy as he could go round reparing them etc but assume he thinks f that got better things to do.

Re other people repairing them this is interesting as people repair old masters so sure they can repair a stencil (no disrespect) and that way they do last. Or they cover them up etc

should street art be kept or just left to develop with the street.

Remember the Banksy Robbo thing was about Banksy messing with his wall piece old and massively tagged as it was.

Robbo altering Banksy stuff Banksy altering it again. So the artists themselves do this and change the pieces.

No conclusion here but think these are interesting points on what should happen to street art and am sure to be fair to them the councils are also trying to work out. These artists ahave become so big etc

Should it be left knowing that a new piece or a new artist will replace it at somepoint in time or should it be protected. Camnden putting it in a frame soon as it appears is this good better or worse than repairing. Should they be repaired. Was the old Robbo tag more or less valuable that what Banksy put up.

Not about the B & R argument but its a really goos example. Threads on here not likeing the Banksy's being altered etc but also not liking them being protected etc.

Just look at the Bristol thing just gone mega pieces shouild they be protected or taken down etc

Food for thought

Johnny

[caro]

...indeed food for thought: just spent a year thinking about that! [you just nailed the subject of my dissertation]

It was great fun but I can't say I came to anything nearer a clear conclusion than that there is no clear conclusion at all lol

And that it's basically about getting people to use their brains, common sense and some critical thinking instead of applying (or looking for) general rules.

One other factor some people forget is that it's unrequired art in a public space that morally belongs to the people. Most artists I interviewed understood it this way, and were sympathetic to the fact that a local community could grow attached to a certain piece and want to keep it somehow. If that's really possible it's another thing...

[johnnyh]

Thanks Caro

You may be ought to put that up on a link when finnished would be interested to read.
Think that as Graffiti / Urban Art just keeps growing and has in many ways has also changed a lot in terms of the work etc as has peoples opinions of that development in the work.

Street pieces seem to be getting bigger rather than smaller - regardless of whether you call it , vandalism, Graffiti or Art. Fact is cannot see it getting smaller.

so think these issues will start to play a bigger part.
Banksy's being protected and others cleaned off. This is a big change as Eines in general are not cleaned off either on many of the shop fronts I can see him being protected soon so that list starts to grow.

Think the Eine shop fronts are a really strong sign of community acceptance as many are on an individuals property and have not had the same Banksy value concept attached. But the individual has kept it. May be the individual is more accepting and enjoying than say the councils rules.

may be they get feed back as love your shutter now etc fro the community and customers who see it on the way home from work or pub etc.

Like the line about using their Brains and no rules cannot see many councils adopting that. Would still need a graffiti art bod to decide vandalism cleanit!!!! Art wonderful keep it !!!!

Interesting

Johnny

[Silentbill]

Caro, I too would be interested in reading your dissertation if possible please.

[singerstu]

Banksy Old Skool resurfaces and up for sale with a few other street pieces

www.sourcewire.com/news/80536/too-cool-for-oldskool-banksy-piece-resurfaces-in-england

stealingbanksy.com/

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 Sincura group.

stealingbanksy.com/

[Cornish Crayon]

What a load of shite