Works By Banksy That Have Been Damaged Or Destroyed
Works by Banksy that have been damaged or destroyed From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is a list of damaged or destroyed works of guerrilla art created by Banksy, which have been removed from their original locations or otherwise damaged or destroyed. Contents 1 Removed […]
Works by Banksy that have been damaged or destroyed From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is a list of damaged or destroyed works of guerrilla art created by Banksy, which have been removed from their original locations or otherwise damaged or destroyed. Contents 1 Removed from their original locations 2 Concealed or defaced 3 Demolished 4 Better Out Than In 5 See also 6 References Removed from their original locations Cave art hoax with accompanying exhibit label, hung on a wall in the British Museum, removed after two or three days and subsequently accessioned; in 2005.[1] Two works jetwashed away and a third work, of a boy holding a stereo and a teddy bear, the subject of legal action opposing its ablation by Hackney Council in order “to keep streets clean”, in Dalston, London; in 2009.[2] Vulture with fuel pump head on side of a container at Dungeness beach, Kent stolen in early September 2010.[3] Rat, stolen from an electricity meter box outside the home of a well-known underwear designer in Melbourne, claimed to be by Banksy; the authenticity of this work was questioned, with some calling it a fake; in 2010.[4] Mickey Mouse-inspired “Livin’ the Dream”, removed from Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles and destroyed; in 2011.[5] Mural entitled “Caution”, detached from a wall in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles; in 2011.[6] Parachuting Rat in Melbourne, Australia was accidentally destroyed in May 2012 by builders installing new plumbing.[7] “Slave Labour“, a 2012 mural depicting a child making union flag bunting and regarded as a critical social commentary on the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, prised from the wall of a Poundland shop in Wood Green, Haringey, North London in ‘mysterious circumstances’ on 13 February 2013. An attempt to sell it in the USA 10 days later, at the Fine Arts Auction Miami art house on 23 February, was halted at the last minute after Haringey residents began a campaign for its return.[8] “No Ball Games”, a 2009 mural depicting two children playing catch with a sign saying “No Ball Games”, was removed from a wall in Tottenham, Haringey, North London in July 2013. It is planned to be restored and then sold in spring 2014. The Sincura Group, the company that had also placed the “Slave Labour” mural up for sale, stated that the mural had “not been appreciated in situ”. Local residents and councilors were disappointed by its removal.[9] In April 2014, “Mobile Lovers” in Bristol (painted onto plyboard) was removed by crowbar, and is currently residing in Broad Plains Boys Club. There is no evidence of legitimate ownership, and the “leader” of the group plans to sell the piece to help gather funding. A mural depicting a soldier with the face of a Lego figure was detached from its original location at Schleifmühlgasse, Vienna, Austria. [10] Concealed or defaced In March 2007 one of Banksy’s early pieces, a 25 ft-long artwork featuring a collection of blue shapes with the artist’s trademark tag, on the side of garages in Albion Road, Easton, Bristol, was mistakenly painted over by graffiti-removal contractors Nordic. They had been asked by Bristol City Council to tackle graffiti adjacent to the Banksy work, but wrongly targeted the piece itself. Within days someone sprayed the words “Wot no Banksy?” over the contractors’ plain paintwork.[11] In April 2007 Banksy’s famous 2002 piece depicting John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson‘s Pulp Fiction characters pointing bananas instead of guns, on a wall near Old Street tube station in London, was painted over by London Transport workmen despite having an estimated value of more than £300,000 at the time. Asked to comment on the mural’s destruction, a Transport for London spokesman said “Our graffiti removal teams are staffed by professional cleaners not professional art critics.“[12] In April 2007 a four-year-old wall mural 25 ft long in Cato Street, Easton, Bristol, marketed for sale with its attached house (at 21 Milvart Street) thrown in for free via Red Propeller gallery and was subsequently defaced with red paint. Celebrities had previously expressed interest in buying the work, and the gallery owner contacted Banksy for permission to restore the work. Banksy however declined the offer, stating that overwriting and defacement was an inevitable reality of street art.[13] In November 2007 a mural of a policeman stopping and searching a young girl in Glastonbury, created in connection with the Glastonbury Festival, was whitewashed over.[14] In 2008 “The Little Diver” or “Diving Bell”, previously protected with a perspex sheet by Melbourne City Council in Australia, incensing many street artists, was covered with silver paint poured behind the sheet and later tagged with the slogan “Banksy woz ere”. The image was almost completely obliterated.[15][16] <img decoding="async" class="thumbimage" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Bansky_one_nation_under_cctv.jpg/220px-Bansky_one_nation_under_cctv.jpg" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Bansky_one_nation_under_cctv.jpg/330px-Bansky_one_nation_under_cctv.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Bansky_one_nation_under_cctv.jpg/440px-Bansky_one_nation_under_cctv.jpg 2x" alt="" width="220" height="147" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="535" /> One nation under CCTV, 2008 mural[17] removed (painted over) in 2009. In April 2009 “One Nation Under CCTV”, an April 2008 mural, was removed (painted over) after London’s Westminster City Council had stated in October 2008 that it would remove any graffiti, regardless of the reputation of its creator, and specifically stated that Banksy “has no more right to paint graffiti than a child.” Robert Davis, chairman of the council planning committee told The Times newspaper: “If we condone this then we might as well say that any kid with a spray can is producing art.”[17] On 22 June 2009 a piece usually described as “Naked man hanging from a window” on the side of Brook Sexual Health Clinic[18] in Park Street, Bristol, and voted for retention by 93% of the public in a 2006 council poll, spattered with blue paint in an overnight paint bomb attack.[19] One of Banksy’s earliest, best known and most prominent works, Mild Mild West, featuring a teddy bear throwing a Molotov cocktail containing a bunch of flowers at police, located on the side of a building in Cheltenham Road, Bristol, was twice defaced with paint during 2009. It was cleaned up both times, but was damaged in the process; the paint used to attack it is still visible. [20] In September 2009 a mural of the British Royal Family, featured on the cover of a single by Blur, was accidentally painted over by workmen employed by Hackney Council, London.[21] Parachuting Rat, one of the last surviving example of Banksy’s Melbourne street art, accidentally painted over by council contractors in March 2010,[22][23] and finally destroyed by building work in May 2012.[24] In February 2011 a mural behind Westwood Village Urban Outfitters in Westwood Village, Los Angeles, depicting a child holding a machine gun loaded with coloured crayons, was defaced with black paint[25] just days before the 83rd Academy Awards for which his documentary film Exit Through The Gift Shop had been nominated. In May 2011 a Banksy piece drawn in October 2010 around an extractor fan on the Grosvenor Hotel in Torquay was destroyed. It depicted a child drawing a robot. Within a week of its appearance the owners announced plans to cover it with protective perspex amid newspaper speculation that it had increased the value of the property by £150,000.[18] Vandals smashed the perspex screen on 31 May 2011 to attack the mural with paint stripper, removing the child.[26] On 6 July 2010, “Gorilla with Pink Face Mask” in Fishponds Road, Eastville, Bristol, was painted over by new owners of the building[27] – by sheer coincidence on the same day that Bristol Zoo Gardens celebrated its 175th anniversary with “Wow! Gorillas“, an event placing decorated life-size gorillas around the city for 10 weeks.[28] In October 2011, Banksy’s “Sniper” on Upper Maudlin Street, Bristol was vandalised by Graffiti artists that support King Robbo spraying Team Robbo with black spray paint.[29] In 2011 a Banksy work in Boston’s Chinatown was graffitied and partially painted over. On 31 December 2013 “Praying Boy”, just off of Main Street in Park City, Utah was graffitied and 90% painted over. It was one of four created during the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. He was in Park City promoting his documentary that was featured in the festival “Exit Through The Gift Shop“.[30] In August 2013 the Banksy which was defaced in 2012 depicting a child drawing a robot at the Grosvenor Hotel in Torquay was covered up by the hotel owners as an attempt to stop vandals doing more damage. In 2012 the image of the boy was damaged by vandals throwing acid on it, all that remained was the robot. The robot has now been boarded up and preserved underneath, the hotel owners claim. Several other Banksy works in New York City were defaced in October 2013.[31] In October 2014, an “Anti-immigration birds” mural painted over after Clacton-on-Sea‘s local council received a complaint, it was not then known that the work was Banksy’s.[32] Demolished “The New Pollution” in St Werburghs, Bristol, was knocked down in 2006 by developers in order to build a new block of flats.[33] “No Loitrin” on Essex Street in Cambridge, MA; removed by sandblasting. Better Out Than In Main article: Better Out Than In Most of the works that make up the Better Out Than In series, started in October 2013 in New York City, have been defaced, some just hours after the piece was unveiled.[34][35] At least one defacement was identified as done by a competing artist, OMAR NYC, who spray-painted over Banksy’s red mylar balloon piece in Red Hook.[36] OMAR NYC also defaced some of Banksy’s work in May 2010.[37][38] On 2 October 2013, on Allen Street in New York City’s Chinatown, one of Banksy’s works that was part of Better Out Than In was painted over, the day after Banksy unveiled the piece.[39] On 7 October 2013, at the intersection of New York City’s Bowery and Delancey streets on the Lower East Side, a stencil by Banksy was tagged over by three vandals.[40] As a result of the continued defacement, fans have been rushing to the sites of the installments as soon as they are announced.[41] A group of men took advantage of this and threatened to deface a stencil painting of a beaver in East New York, charging money for people to take photographs.[42] The continued defacement has prompted some to take matters into their own hands by guarding the works, others restoring them once defaced.[43] Property owners have also gone to some measures to protect the art, including hiring 24-hour guards and installing roll down gates that cover the art.[44] See also Iconoclasm Banksy Parachuting Rat Slave Labour (mural) References Jump up^ “Cave art hoax hits British Museum”. 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For a month in 2013, street artist Banksy created an exhibit every day in a surprise location in New York City. The HBO documentary “Banksy Does New York” recounts the artist’s scavenger hunt. Director Chris Moukarbel joins HuffPost Live to discuss. See more at […]
For a month in 2013, street artist Banksy created an exhibit every day in a surprise location in New York City. The HBO documentary “Banksy Does New York” recounts the artist’s scavenger hunt. Director Chris Moukarbel joins HuffPost Live to discuss. See more at – http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/banksy-does-new-york-hbo-documentary-/545a6b0802a76027210001bc
On Oct. 1, 2013, the elusive British street artist known as Banksy launched a self-proclaimed month-long residency in New York City, posting one unique exhibit a day in an unannounced location, sparking a 31-day scavenger hunt both online and on the streets for Banksy’s work. […]
On Oct. 1, 2013, the elusive British street artist known as Banksy launched a self-proclaimed month-long residency in New York City, posting one unique exhibit a day in an unannounced location, sparking a 31-day scavenger hunt both online and on the streets for Banksy’s work. Capturing this month of madness, BANKSY DOES NEW YORK incorporates user-generated content, from YouTube videos to Instagram photos, from New Yorkers and Banksy hunters alike, whose responses became part of the work itself, for an exhilarating, detailed account of the uproar created by the mysterious artist. With installations spanning all five boroughs of New York City, and including a mix of stencil graffiti, sculpture, video and performance art, Banksy touched on such wide-ranging subjects as fast-food wages, animal cruelty in the meat industry, civilian casualties in Iraq and the hypocrisy of the modern art world. Daily News reporter Beth Stebner, who covered Banksy’s residency, was struck by the wide array of people drawn to his work, noting, “You had art students, you had plumbers, you had gallery owners. It just brought New Yorkers out.” A pair of Banksy hunters and dog walkers using the handle @twowaytraffic chronicled their month-long search on camera, while Stephan Kezler, owner of a Southampton gallery that buys and sells the street artist’s unauthorized, illegal, public work, sought out new — and valuable — pieces. From Queens and Staten Island to Bushwick and the Lower East Side, each new piece was revealed daily on the artist’s @BANKSYNY Instagram account and website, but the exact locations of the pieces remained secret. “He made a treasure hunt where you needed to go and find something in a part of the city you’ve never been in before,” notes Steve P. Harrington, founder of the Brooklyn Street Art Museum. Using Twitter hashtags and posts to Facebook, Instagram and Vine, art lovers and fans searched the streets for a new and often fleeting glimpse at Banksy’s work. Banksy hunter Rebecca Encalad recalls, “We would post something and then hashtag it #TheBanksyPhenomenon. It trained us on how to find things on social media.” Adding to the thrill of the chase for Banksy fans was the uncertainty of whether a work would be altered or removed before they arrived to see it.Local graffiti artists took to tagging over the pieces, while some property owners removed or obscured the works in hopes of cashing in on the Banksy craze. Eventually, the artist in residence drew the attention of Mayor Bloomberg, who stated that Banksy was defacing public and private property. Though the NYPD denied they were hunting the artist, as the press claimed, one day of the residency was canceled due to police intervention. On Oct. 31, the final day of Banksy’s residency, balloon letters spelling “Banksy” were displayed near 5 Pointz, the soon-to-be demolished graffiti landmark in Queens. As a crowd formed below the work, a group of men attempted to remove it, prompting an outcry captured by videos posted to Facebook and YouTube. “It’s like the Internet’s almost the graffiti wall,” said one New Yorker, while another believed the residency could only be seen in person, arguing, “You can’t re-blog this. You have to experience it.” As the audio guide on Banksy’s website observed, “The outside is where art should live, amongst us, where it can act as a public service, promote debate, voice concerns and forge identities. Don’t we want to live in a world made of art, not just decorated by it?” BANKSY DOES NEW YORK was directed by Chris Moukarbel; produced by Jack Turner; produced in association with Matador Content. For HBO: senior producer, Sara Bernstein; executive producer, Sheila Nevins. See more at http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/banksy-does-new-york#/documentaries/banksy-does-new-york/synopsis.html/
Banksy Does New York Review: Fast and furious documentary charts elusive street artist’s New York residency Date 22 April 2015 – 8:12 PM Philippa Hawker Still from the HBO documentary Banksy Does New York. Photo: Madman ★★★ This busy, hectic HBO documentary chronicles a month-long […]
Banksy Does New York Review: Fast and furious documentary charts elusive street artist’s New York residency Date 22 April 2015 – 8:12 PM Philippa Hawker <img data-recalc-dims="1" height="344" width="612" decoding="async" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12.1599998474121px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: bottom;" src="https://i0.wp.com/images.smh.com.au/2015/04/22/6465568/Article%20Lead%20-%20wide986565421mqjxnimage.related.articleLeadwide.729x410.1mqjvi.png1429697526947.jpg-620x349.jpg?resize=612%2C344" alt="Still from the HBO documentary Banksy Does New York." /> Still from the HBO documentary Banksy Does New York. Photo: Madman ★★★ This busy, hectic HBO documentary chronicles a month-long “residency” in New York in October 2013 by the famously anonymous street artist Banksy, who produced an artwork a day in different parts of the city, amida fever of social media and public excitement. <img data-recalc-dims="1" height="344" width="612" decoding="async" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12.1599998474121px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: bottom;" src="https://i0.wp.com/images.smh.com.au/2015/04/22/6465567/Article%20Lead%20-%20wide986565421mqjy1image.related.articleLeadwide.729x410.1mqjvi.png1429697526947.jpg-620x349.jpg?resize=612%2C344" alt="Banksy Does New York charts the elusive street artist Banksy's New York residency." />Banksy Does New York charts the elusive street artist Banksy’s New York residency. Photo: Madman Banksy would leave clues to each location on a website and an Instagram account, and he provided a mock “audio guide” as well. Chris Moukarbel​’s documentary is not like the earlier Banksy film, Exit Through The Gift Shop, in which the artist was involved. It focuses on the public response to Banksy’s enterprise. It’s propelled by the most visible manifestations of excitement — the scavenger-hunt phenomenon, as people scramble to be the first to find the new works and post evidence of their discovery. It too is a scramble. What Banksy produced, day by day – with a team of supporters, undoubtedly – ranged from a simple slogan or painting on a wall to a complex installation, from sculptures to mobile installations travelling on trucks around the city. Sometimes he played with the perceived monetary value of his work. On one occasion, he acquired a landscape painting from a charity shop, then returned it with an additional element, the figure of a Nazi officer sitting on a bench; the charity sold the work at auction for $600,000. On another day, he hired a man to sell on the street what turned out to be signed Banksy originals, priced at $60: there were only four takers. <img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12.1599998474121px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: bottom;" src="https://i0.wp.com/images.smh.com.au/2015/04/22/6465569/Article%20Lead%20-%20narrow986565421mqjxsimage.related.articleLeadNarrow.353x0.1mqjvi.png1429697526947.jpg-300x0.jpg?w=612" alt="Street artist Omar 'bombs' Banksy's Red Hook Balloon in the documentary Banksy Does New York." />Street artist Omar ‘bombs’ Banksy’s Red Hook Balloonin the documentary Banksy Does New York. Photo: Madman The film touches on some of the issues that arise from the work: the place of graffiti in urban culture, the gentrification of the city, the impact of development. It canvasses a few art-world responses to Banksy, ranging from the disdain of the New York Observer’s art critic to a gallery owner who is an eager acquirer of whatever pieces he can lay his hands on. It engages rather more peripherally with public responses to some of the more overtly political Banksy works. Banksy Does New York is a fast and furious record of the residency as a public event. The talking heads can’t tell us much, but Moukarbel makes deft use of crowd-sourced footage to convey the wildly different ways New Yorkers engaged with the works. Some wanted to be photographed with them, some wanted to acquire them, some to protect them, some to erase them. Some found them infuriating. And some wondered what all the fuss was about. Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/banksy-does-new-york-review-fast-and-furious-documentary-charts-elusive-street-artists-new-york-residency-20150422-1mqjvi.html#ixzz3Y37lHtRX