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Banksy artwork self-destructs just after $1.4 million sale
Breitbart.com ^
| October 6th 2018
| AP
Posted on 10/07/2018 2:00:09 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg
LONDON (AP) Art prankster Banksy has struck again.
A work by the elusive street artist self-destructed in front of startled auction-goers on Friday, moments after being sold for 1.04 million pounds ($1.4 million). In an Instagram post Saturday, Banksy claimed the dramatic artistic payoff had been years in the making.
The spray-painted canvas Girl With Balloon went under the hammer at Sothebys in London, fetching more than three times its pre-sale estimate and equaling a record price for the artist.
Then, as an alarm sounded, it ran through a shredder embedded in the frame, leaving half the canvas hanging from the bottom in strips.
A post on Banksys official Instagram account showed the moment and the shocked reaction of those in the room with the words Going, going, gone
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: arttroll; banksy; chat
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Some say he is a faker some say he has no talent, but there is one thing for sure, when it comes to self promotion Bansky is a certified Jedi Master! 😎👌
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posted on
10/07/2018 2:00:09 PM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
To: Mad Dawgg
Did the buyer like it more or less after the shredding?
Did they get a refund???
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posted on
10/07/2018 2:04:50 PM PDT
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
To: Mad Dawgg
He has talent. He’s nobody’s Rembrandt, but he’s a lot more talented than say, Andy Warhol. I’ve heard it said, “If I can do it, it ain’t art.” Well, I can’t do what Banksy does.
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posted on
10/07/2018 2:05:08 PM PDT
by
Artemis Webb
(Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
To: right way right
I heard that the value probably doubled after it was shredded.
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posted on
10/07/2018 2:05:47 PM PDT
by
Artemis Webb
(Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
To: Mad Dawgg
When everything is art;
Nothing is
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posted on
10/07/2018 2:05:52 PM PDT
by
Hodar
(A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
To: Artemis Webb
New art skill: building shredders into picture frames.
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posted on
10/07/2018 2:07:44 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
To: Mad Dawgg
There is an old adage “A fool and his money are easily parted” I wouldn’t be surprised if the buyer was a liberal as most of them are mentally challenged. But since I am not an art connoisseur, its brilliance and value probably has escaped me. But whoever the artist is, he sure knows how to pull one over.
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posted on
10/07/2018 2:09:08 PM PDT
by
saintgermaine
(saintgermaine the time traveller)
To: Mad Dawgg
This action further enhances Banksy’s anarchist “street cred.”
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posted on
10/07/2018 2:14:40 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: right way right
"Did the buyer like it more or less after the shredding? Did they get a refund???" The art will triple in value at the least I am sure since Bansky did it himself.
I am sure the person that bought it is happy as a clam.
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posted on
10/07/2018 2:16:43 PM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
To: Mad Dawgg
That shredder must have been activated by Remote Control and powered by a long, long lasting battery.
A. Someone at the auction must have passed the word of the sale.
B. The shredder frame may have been put on later, by an associate.
C. This looks like something Yoko Ono would do.
I recall she once had an Art Show June 2012 in London. The show featured three identical piles of DIRT. The exhibit was named; “Country A, Country B, Country C.”
Some critics called the work ‘fabulous!. Others called it
‘groundbreaking!’.
To: Army Air Corps
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posted on
10/07/2018 2:18:44 PM PDT
by
Big Red Badger
(Despised by the Despicable!)
To: saintgermaine
There is an old adage A fool and his money are easily parted
Let me suggest a predicate: "Unless he can find a bigger fool." There are plenty of multi-million $ artworks of questionable artistic merit that continued to appreciate.
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posted on
10/07/2018 2:18:55 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: Army Air Corps
He is a certified genius at staying way out on the edge yet selling his warez for millions. He does not take himself or his so-called “art” too seriously and I believe everything he does he executes while his tongue is firmly in cheek.
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posted on
10/07/2018 2:20:21 PM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
To: Mad Dawgg
I agree completely, he paints with his tongue firmly planted in his cheek.
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posted on
10/07/2018 2:21:55 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Mad Dawgg
Betting the a$$hole who bought it thinks that this doubles its value.
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posted on
10/07/2018 2:22:01 PM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
To: lee martell
dropped glasses at the San Fran Museum of Modern Art
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posted on
10/07/2018 2:22:29 PM PDT
by
Reverend Wright
(I am a Putin bot. And I approve this message.)
To: Reverend Wright
To: Mad Dawgg
The artwork in question:
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posted on
10/07/2018 2:24:33 PM PDT
by
Artemis Webb
(Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
To: I want the USA back
Re #15:
It DID double it’s value, at least.
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posted on
10/07/2018 2:26:28 PM PDT
by
Artemis Webb
(Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
To: Reverend Wright
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posted on
10/07/2018 2:31:03 PM PDT
by
Williams
(Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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