That Businessman Is Planning to Paint Over Banksy’s Giant Rat
The Telegraph contradicts BBC, reporting that developer Billy Palmer who bought the Liverpool pub donning Banksy’s 30-foot tall machine-gun toting rat actually has no plans to keep the art work.
Interested primarily in restoring the building’s Gregorian glory and parceling it up as luxury flats, Palmer said: “I’m not a fan of modern art.” The artwork probably won’t seem so welcoming to utlra-bourgeois residents… and we had our hopes up… Bye bye, ratty.
by Marina Galperina on February 22, 2010 at 1:00 pm
Editor-in-Chief:
In the future urban archaeologists will be removing layer after layer of paint to uncover those 'lost' Phase 2s out there.