The total idiot who did isn’t any better than Bansky. The only thing he achieved is people knowing that he really isn’t a skilled spray paint guy at all.

Who cares? Banksy’s shitck doesn’t matter anymore. It’s fad art. R.I.P.

Bansky mat be overrated, but this guy isn’t even trying to be creative..

Clever alterations, I’m okay with. Painting over neatly in a solid color so as to “restore” or whatever, that’s fine. Yeah, part of the magic is the temporary quality that street art always has. At least there are photographs of all the originals, so they’re not really gone for good. So I don’t really care much. But the stupid stencils and squiggles are just dumb. It’s immature. Like keying someone’s car. Even if it’s parked crooked or it’s kind of old in the first place, that’s still a shitty thing to do.

Wow, a lot of people saw Please Exit through the Gift Shop didn’t they?

banksy = overrated

*meh*

oddly enough, some graffitiists (bet that ain’t even IN the dictionary) do special return bombs, as it were, but for the most part, the very knowledge that one leads to the other is an interesting bit of “bait”…
NYC has some fairly ‘hard’ laws about that hobby. Perhaps it’s an elaborate trap for setting an example to an excellent graffitiist? (I’m sticking with that word, red wavy lines can just get over it)
I love banksy’s work, the simplicity, the content
it’s an original (though now well copied) technique, just as the stickers. (butt ugly or not) In the long run, he’s seen his work destryoed by governments…I don’t doubt for one moment he laughs…at least, now.
Perhaps after some travel time through the country,
he might return….

We don’t hear Banksy complaining about this. He works in graffiti, he knows the territory. The only people complaining are Banksy fans and building owners who thought they had a few million dollars added to their property values.

If you’re going to ruin someone else’s graffiti, at least make it better.

Graffiti is a transitory medium. Yet, who among you will defend tagging on The Last Supper. Banksy’s work may not be on that par but he is the artist of this era. He is considered a national treasure in the UK.

So as much as I love good street art, who are we to call Banksy untouchable? If he wanted his art to stay pristine, and provoke only those who have the means, he would have painted this on canvas and put it in a gallery.
This is what happens to street art, and thats part of the appeal.
Granted, I would hope you would raise the bar when painting up Bansky, not support the “graffitti” nay-sayers. But hey, we can’t have it all.

Just pathetic self promotion.  At least be clever. Duchamp was clever for putting a mustache on the Mona Lisa—He didn’t just make a copy and stab the canvas and put his sticker on it.

not cool.

Uuugh. Not even awesome alterations. Just stickers and some ugly ass’ face. The names and douchebaggery is very morning radio show.

I fully support the act of painting over Banksy. His pieces can live momentarily and there is beauty in that. I don’t support that these guys are getting exposure for piggy backing on Banksy to promote Posterboys book.

Picasso knew better than to paint his masterpieces on the side of a building. Banksy may be an icon in the art world, but his work is no more legitimate than those who would paint over it either to create their own art or to cover it up to restore the facade that Banksy took it upon himself to “improve”. If your medium is vandalism, this just goes with the territory.

HOW DARE HE!