Chiseled, Looted Banksy Makes Pit Stop in Brooklyn
September 6, 2013 | Andy Cush
Stop by Gowanus’s Serett Metal Works in the next few days and you may catch a glimpse of a Banksy. Not because the artist painted an original work on the building, but because it’s the temporary home of a piece hacked out of a Los Angeles wall, taken, and sold by the shady Hamptons gallery owner Stephan Kezsler (and it’s not the first time Kezsler has pulled this kind of thing).
After looting it, Kezsler sold the piece for an unnamed sum (the initial price was $400,000) to an anonymous buyer in Italy, and it’s currently in Gowanus being prepped for its overseas journey. The gallery couldn’t be reached for comment when DNAinfo initially reported the story. I wonder why?
According to the New York Post, “Banksy’s a Bust!” His market is so bad that the Brooklyn Museum won’t even take a free piece by the famous street artist, the tabloid claims. Cara Tabachnick, whose family owns a building in East Williamsburg where Banksy painted two geishas during his month-long Better Out…
Here's a new Banky stencil of a vomiting vandal that was confirmed by his official website and reportedly done in Los Angeles. The flowers sprouting up from a crack in the wall have been incorporated into the design. Cute. UPDATE: Better Out Than In has nothing to do with LA.…
Totally shocking, breaking Banksy news!!! If you've become accustomed to seeing the very famous street artist's stencils being boarded up, made a fuss about and chiseled out of the walls of Detroit and Palestine (PALESTINE for fuck's sake!) and then sold off at an auction, all shady-like... It happened again. This time to that hyped…
