Oh, the irony! Von BoingBoing.
During the Jubilee, someone — probably Banksy — posted a graffiti mural on the side of a Poundland discount shop depicting a child working in a sweatshop sewing bunting with the Union flag on it. The mural attracted great attention in Wood Green, the district of London where it appeared, and local councillors took steps to ensure that it was not removed or painted over by overzealous city workers.
Then, one day, it disappeared. And reappeared in the catalog of Fine Art Auctions in Miami, with an asking price of $500,000. The auction house (which hasn’t returned any press calls on the work) claims that it got the Banksy (or „Banksy“) from a collector who assured them that it had been acquired through legal means. The Poundland shop says it had nothing to do with flogging the piece, and no one can get the building’s owner on the phone.
„Irony is not dead.“
Cory Doctorows Schlusskommentar auf BoingBoing ist eigentlich nichts hinzuzufügen.
wohl eher Globalismus, nicht Kapitalismus! dass gerade street art bei irgend nem superreichen narzissten in der villa versauert ist natürlich schon ne schande!