Imagine waking tomorrow and all music has disappeared
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Under the bridge, on the Irwell.
Under the bridge, on the Irwell.
And if anyone would know it would be a pigeon.
Written in a notepad somewhere- to be put into a folder I need to start of story ideas- is something along the line of “How would someone steal a valuable piece of graffiti?”
It turns out the answer is straightforward- they’d just chisel out the section of wall and cart it away. This is what happened to a Banksy piece in the huge, long abandoned Packard plant in Detroit. The group that took the wall section- a local arts collective- claim they only did it to protect the art. Others aren’t so sure. Matters are made more complex because ownership of the property isn’t clearcut. Maybe it belongs to a man serving time in California, maybe the owner is the mystery name on documentation, or perhaps the city has the right to reclaim the site for its own ends.
Says Luis Croquer, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, “This may be unprecedented, because in most other cities, you wouldn’t be able to take a wall home… What does it mean to move a wall? 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 much harder to encounter in other cities.”
‘Nuff said.
Taken on Saturday, but I just remembered I had it.
Honest.
I haven’t a clue what it means, it’s probably something to do with football.
I doubt they were done by the man himself, I’m sure he’d have covered more of the car. Spotted on Thomas Street.
Look closely and it has eyes and a funky moustache.
I think it’s time to challenge myself to post at least one photo a day again. So I’m setting a reminder on my phone for 6 o’clock every evening.
The current hot grafftiist is a ten year old girl called Solveig. The Telegraph has a gallery of her art and you can see more on her Flickr page.
This one is on Rue La Fayette.
Near Afflecks.
The Wooster Collective have a few pictures of Banksy pieces in New Orleans. And there are more in this second post.
I missed Eurocultured this year, but it always leaves something behind.
Don’t know who he is.