Banksy’s Anti-Graffiti Graffiti Gets Graffitied

The most popular vandal in all the world, Banksy, keeps on getting a taste of his own medicine. Just this year, his work has been accidentally painted over and purposefully defaced during his big show in Bristol. But as we’ve also seen over the past couple of years, people have been defensive of Banksy’s work, even receiving requests that he show up to tag in their towns (perhaps due to some correlation with how much his work goes for at auction?). Now the news comes that while neighborhood residents and officials were meeting to discuss what to do with a Banksy on one of their walls, whether they should keep it or not (the vote was an overwhelming yes), nogoodniks were graffiting all over Banksy’s graffiti. So now, we’re assuming, Banksy’s piece, and all of this new street art will be removed. And if that hasn’t already gotten too meta for you, here’s a quote from one of the neighborhood voters about why they think the piece was defaced:

“The image actually criticised mindless graffiti so perhaps it isn’t surprising that the sort of people who do that sort of thing should attack it.”

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