[KarlInOhio]

During a recent visit to the Motor City, the artist known as Banksy, an international art world celebrity, secretly stenciled a painting of a boy holding a can of red paint on the wall of the crumbling 3.5-million-square-foot Packard plant. The caption on the work read: "I remember when all this was trees."

With the decay and deurbaniazation of Detroit, within a generation you could carve on one of the trees growing there "I remember when this was a factory".

"And beyond legality, who does the wall really belong to, and now does the art belong to the gallery? To everybody? To nobody? We're operating in this space where there's this lawlessness that opens up possibilities that would be harder to encounter in other cities."

Uh, maybe the title holder of the land and what is left of the building? To the person or company which has been paying property tax on it? The those who would have been held legally liable if a loose brick had fallen off and hit Bansky on the head? Your vandalism is not a claim to my property.

[GeronL]

With the decay and deurbaniazation of Detroit, within a generation you could carve on one of the trees growing there "I remember when this was a factory".

So true. lol.

[Daffynition]

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Could not be posted due to copyright complaint: "...a guerilla act on top of Banksy’s initial guerilla act"

I'm one of the white people who consider graffiti to be art when it looks like something other than a bunch of squiggles. In every other instance, I consider it vandalism.

[Nateman]

I remember when this use to be a factory.