Comments on: Rubbish Curators http://www.subsubskills.co.uk/blog/2007/05/rubbish-curators/ Adventures in the world of SubSub and Submerge Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:52:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: spammer http://www.subsubskills.co.uk/blog/2007/05/rubbish-curators/#comment-5123 spammer Fri, 18 May 2007 18:22:04 +0000 http://www.subsubskills.co.uk/blog/2007/05/rubbish-curators/#comment-5123 its mad what's going on in bristol at the moment. there was a ghostboy stencil on a shutter across from bar 130 on chelenham road (been there for about two years) it disapeared recently only to apear and be sold on ebay. the last bid i saw was £2655. this was only 3 days in to the auction. wish i had nicked it now :) its mad what’s going on in bristol at the moment. there was a ghostboy stencil on a shutter across from bar 130 on chelenham road (been there for about two years) it disapeared recently only to apear and be sold on ebay. the last bid i saw was £2655. this was only 3 days in to the auction. wish i had nicked it now :)

]]> By: Mr. Efergan http://www.subsubskills.co.uk/blog/2007/05/rubbish-curators/#comment-4562 Mr. Efergan Thu, 10 May 2007 15:15:59 +0000 http://www.subsubskills.co.uk/blog/2007/05/rubbish-curators/#comment-4562 From what I saw (which was one person), they seem to be leaving any works... and painting over tags, which is a pretty fair system. I know that somewhere in the middle the scribbled tags will blend into decent works, but generally there's a difference between the two. As for Banksy hyping himself, that's always been part of what he does. But it's difficult to say how much control he has over other people buying and selling his work. He did publicly slate the amount they paid for his last piece, whether that was further publicity or genuine difficult it's difficult to say. Above link doesn't work, but some of the final links resolved are: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/6599661.stm http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/articles/2006/06/23/banksy_art_feature.shtml http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6592739.stm From what I saw (which was one person), they seem to be leaving any works… and painting over tags, which is a pretty fair system. I know that somewhere in the middle the scribbled tags will blend into decent works, but generally there’s a difference between the two.

As for Banksy hyping himself, that’s always been part of what he does. But it’s difficult to say how much control he has over other people buying and selling his work. He did publicly slate the amount they paid for his last piece, whether that was further publicity or genuine difficult it’s difficult to say.

Above link doesn’t work, but some of the final links resolved are:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/6599661.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/articles/2006/06/23/banksy_art_feature.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6592739.stm

]]> By: Chris http://www.subsubskills.co.uk/blog/2007/05/rubbish-curators/#comment-4554 Chris Thu, 10 May 2007 14:30:08 +0000 http://www.subsubskills.co.uk/blog/2007/05/rubbish-curators/#comment-4554 I'm nearly positive they would have been under instruction to leave it because of value. I am hearing about this alot with banksys' work. I find it quite disgusting that this goes on. How can you take away one piece of work and not another just because of its perceived financial value? Banksy once created these amazing urban works. Now he i a very clever money spinner, has a team of hype spinners, a pa, gallery representation no doubt. I'm sure he is laughing all the way to the bank. "Workers on the London Underground painted over a Pulp Fiction inspired piece earlier this month after mistaking it for ordinary graffiti. And in March, a mural in east London was almost entirely removed by thieves. One of Banksy's early murals was mistakenly painted over in the same month by Bristol council's graffiti-removal contractors. And in February two smaller works in London were also painted over". "There is no way it could have been mistaken for graffiti. Whoever destroyed it is an idiot." http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?scope=all&edition=d&q=banksy&go=Search The list of this stuff is endless. Congrats on all the fame. I’m nearly positive they would have been under instruction to leave it because of value. I am hearing about this alot with banksys’ work. I find it quite disgusting that this goes on. How can you take away one piece of work and not another just because of its perceived financial value?

Banksy once created these amazing urban works. Now he i a very clever money spinner, has a team of hype spinners, a pa, gallery representation no doubt. I’m sure he is laughing all the way to the bank.

“Workers on the London Underground painted over a Pulp Fiction inspired piece earlier this month after mistaking it for ordinary graffiti. And in March, a mural in east London was almost entirely removed by thieves.
One of Banksy’s early murals was mistakenly painted over in the same month by Bristol council’s graffiti-removal contractors. And in February two smaller works in London were also painted over”.

“There is no way it could have been mistaken for graffiti. Whoever destroyed it is an idiot.”

http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?scope=all&edition=d&q=banksy&go=Search

The list of this stuff is endless. Congrats on all the fame.

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