Banksy Cancelled Exhibit Due To Police Activity (PHOTOS)
Police Shutdown & Removed Art: Banksy Is Having A Bad 23rd Day On The Job In NYC (PHOTOS)
While you’re sitting at your desk counting down the hours to Friday, have a little compassion for the man (or the art collective, who knows) Banksy, who has been hard at work for 23 days straight evading the police, making art (and headlines), and staying up to date on social media throughout it all…all in the name of art.
But even with the best laid plans, there sometimes has to be a bump in the road – especially when the plan is to make the streets of NYC into your very own art gallery.
Yesterday, a three-foot cement replica of the Great Sphinx appeared in Queens, New York on Tuesday as the latest addition to Banksy’s street artist residency. But before anyone could get the chance to visit the sculpture, it was swiftly sold by a business owner before the day even ended.
Bernardo ‘Choco’ Veles sold the one near his Millets Point, Queens auto-glass shop Tuesday afternoon to an eager art collector for an undisclosed sum. A truck showed up, the Sphinx was loaded in the back, the crowd booed, yelled “you don’t own it” and then someone paid $100 for one, just one, of the bricks from the sculpture.
After the missing Sphinx of yesterday, Banksy let it be known that today would be cancelled, and he would not have an art exhibit popping up. The text on his website reads simply, “Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.”
Are the police getting hot on his trail? Is there police activity where Banksy was planning on placing his next installment? What was it going to be? Where will it go now, and most importantly, will we ever find out who Banksy really is?
Want to learn more about the movement? Check out our whole recap of events here.
PHOTO CREDIT: Banksy NY.com
