Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Another Banksy removed for sale by Sincura
I may be last to the party with this, but another local Banksy piece has been ripped from it's wall to be sold by the Sincura group - in Tottenham.
News item on BBC
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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"Not appreciated", of course, all the grunting ingrates of Tottenham are incapable of Higher Thoughts. Bastids.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Yeah, Banksy should have put it up in the Barbican. Idiot...
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Permalink Reply by Rachel W on
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How would they know if it was appreciated or not? I don't recall being asked, and I pass it most workdays. I wish they'd had the front to just admit they wanted the cash.
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Permalink Reply by Lolup43 on
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I don't know about anyone else but I'm relieved.
The amount of time I used to spend each day not appreciating the Banksy was really stopping me getting anything else done at all. "I'm sorry I can't come to work right now, I'm busy not appreciating some local art work. Ask me again tomorrow"
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Of course it would never have "appreciated" (hint: Lat. pretium=price) to Sincura's looting standards if it hadn't been for the Whymark circus.
But I swear, if I hear another Tottenham Estate Agent like Mrs Cooke of Cooke Estates (who obviously had her beady eye on this property) mouthing iconic clichés about local bloody Blanksy "icons", I'll crawl all the way down Wightman Road on my bloodied knees and convert to Greek Orthodoxy. At least they know their arse from an Icon.
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Permalink Reply by Chris Setz on
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Nationalise the Banksies
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Permalink Reply by cara howard on
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It seems from the article that the removal isn't complete, flash mob to stop the 'girl' being moved?
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I think it might be better to try to take the monetary value out of the work without diminishing it, otherwise they'll all go this way eventually.
Maybe the answer is reproductions. Just put copies everywhere.
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Very tempting to go and chuck a bucket of paint over it, as it's now ruined anyway.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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The whole point about the Banksies is that they are meant to be transitory. Not perhaps as ephemeral as yesterday's cartoon in your favourite paper, but their impact depends on their surprise value. They're fun but not great art. They can surprise you only once.
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Completely disagree. You seem to be claiming to tell the 'truth' about the work.
There is a consensus among critics about Banksy, but it's not the same as yours.
Still, glad to see your posting John - hope you're well, and happy.
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Banksy is an ex public school boy and he pays people to wheat paste up his stencils while he sits at home with a cigar on counting his money. With his simplistic political messages like capitalism is bad, wow thanks for enlightening us Banksy. Banksy is a media hype and the politicians jump on the bandwagon. When the kids and other artists get their stuff cleaned off the walls
Leader of Haringey Council Cllr Kober and Lib Dem MP Ms Featherstone are being hypocrits because they talk in the media about how they want Banksy art to stay in the local area. When graffiti removal teams clean off lots of art from the walls from young artists and Ms Kober and Ms Featherstone never complain about that.
The kids must think what a joke it is that the authorities are such hypocrits.
Anyone who sells off Banksy artwork is doing the right thing in making themselves some money.
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