please empty your brain below
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It is wonderful to see Banksies back in London. It is making me feel very nostalgic, particularly the Brick Lane railway bridge art.
Dan | 10.08.24 - 7:13 a.m. | #
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It's a VERY GOOD fish & chip shop, too
Though I usually use on, almost asa good, in Wood St!
Wonky Donkey | 10.08.24 - 8:00 a.m. | #
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How does he get away with putting paint on buildings he does not own without permission? He should be prosecuted if caught. His examples probably encourage other people spray graffiti
John | 10.08.24 - 8:20 a.m. | #
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I wish he’d paint in more rundown, less trendy parts of London. Imagine how local shopkeepers or caffs in say Plaistow, St Paul’s Cray or Willesden could benefit if there was a Banksy there.
choccybiccy | 10.08.24 - 8:24 a.m. | #
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Ignoring your cultural philistinism for a moment, John, he "gets away" with it because his activity instantly increases the value of said property
Ian | 10.08.24 - 8:56 a.m. | #
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We went to look at our nearby teetering goat Banksie in Kew to find scaffolding in front of it and a guy measuring it up for the obligatory Perspex sheeting, or in preparation for demoliting the wall and selling it.
As an aside, while the building retains the original signage of the Caxton Nameplate Company, we were told it now houses a gun-making company. In leafy Kew indeed!
ActonMan | 10.08.24 - 9:07 a.m. | #
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And don't forget to enter and exit the gift shop in Charing X Road
Bob | 10.08.24 - 9:18 a.m. | #
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I got out early and saw the goat in Kew on Tuesday, as I figured what would happen. The security camera had been repositioned back to looking down the lane rather than up at the goat. Nice to see it before the perspex went up.
Greg | 10.08.24 - 9:29 a.m. | #
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I'm amazed nobody ever sees him doing these works.
Mikey C | 10.08.24 - 9:53 a.m. | #
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Bonners are on their annual august holiday, hopefully it'll still be here when they come back so they can benefit from the interests
Alistair Twin | 10.08.24 - 10:01 a.m. | #
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I think Peckham was a publicity stunt (the only reason I saw coverage), lets see if anyone is actually arrested and charged with theft.
Still Anon | 10.08.24 - 10:26 a.m. | #
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I'm turning into a grumpy old man because I saw that bottom picture and thought "he's got paint on the street sign. That's council property. Disgusting."
Scott | Homepage | 10.08.24 - 10:38 a.m. | #
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I'm usually not a fanatical Banksy fan, I think his stuff is cool but nothing much special. But this series is really great, taking people around London with silhouettes of animals, during a time of increased community tensions and hatred.
Today's Banksy is a stretching cat on a billboard on the A5 in Cricklewood.
TW | 10.08.24 - 2:21 p.m. | #
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I'm all for public art, and am a fan of street art in general, but I do think Banksy is overrated and the rabid fandom is quite pathetic.
Defacing street art is normal, it happens all the time, albeit a new piece usually gets a bit longer before someone tags or pastes over it. Protecting a piece behind perspex is a nonsense activity as that goes against what street art should be about - it's supposed to change and evolve as it weathers and other pieces appear around it. Chopping it out of a wall to resell is pointless as it then removes the context of the piece but people are stupid and will still pay for it.
Louise | 10.08.24 - 4:57 p.m. | #
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Is he/she just one person?
kev | 10.08.24 - 5:10 p.m. | #
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Bonners Fish Bar!! To say it has been battering there for many years is almost an understatement -- that was my local chippie in the early 1960s! I even went to primary school with one or two of the Bonner offspring.
James Webber | 10.08.24 - 6:50 p.m. | #
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The sixth - cat on a very dilapidated billboard - was removed earlier today by contractors working for the board's owner.
There are reports that the board was scheduled to be taken down on Monday anyway but those plans were accelerated.
Andrew | 10.08.24 - 10:21 p.m. | #
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Somebody graffiti's property and gets praised for it. Other graffitti'ists get senetenced (if caught) for damaging property!
rogmi | 11.08.24 - 12:57 p.m. | #
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If you were to wake up and find a fresh Banksy adorning your property, I wonder how much additional media circus could be created by simply painting over it? Two possibilities spring to mind - 1) just stealthily slap some emulsion over it in the dead of night so it vanishes as quickly as it appeared, or 2) create an auction with the "prize" of being the person to paint over it, then watch the influences beat a path to your door. I guess 3) might have been "turn it into an NFT and sell it to web3 idiots", but that ship seems to have sailed.
PhilD | 11.08.24 - 1:45 p.m. | #
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The City of London police are describing the seventh - piranhas in a police sentry box on Lugdate Hill - as "criminal damage". But they are checking with the City Corporation who actually owns this valuable artwork.
As it is at ground level, I suspect there is a good chance it will be vandalised before I see it on my way to work.
Andrew | 11.08.24 - 2:20 p.m. | #
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I've been to see the next two...
Saturday: cat in Cricklewood (already removed)
Sunday: piranhas on Ludgate Hill
diamond geezer | Homepage | 11.08.24 - 3:08 p.m. | #
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As of today (Monday 12/8) there's now another one: it's down in Charlton - near the riverside, apparently - and depicts a rhino humping a (real) Nissan Micra
RogerW | 12.08.24 - 5:30 p.m. | #
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The City have now removed the Ludgate Hill piranhas. Think they're putting it in the Guildhall.
Nick | 13.08.24 - 11:22 a.m. | #
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