how dare he besmirch the good name of the royal courts who stripped away rights from the british public to protest genocide
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The artwork, which shows a protester holding a white picket sign spattered with red paint
They just omit the judge bludgeoning the protester with his gavel, thus CAUSING the "red paint" on the sign?
I guess they're afraid that an informed public might applaud the accuracy of Banksy's message or something like that 🤦
They've been trying to get banksey Banks ever since I recall hearing of banksey Banksy. May s/he ever be anonymous.
I was under the impression that their identity was an open secret
Is it?
There are so many different rumors and speculations about who it is that just adds to the anonymity.
Yeah, it's my understanding that it's reasonably common knowledge for those in the community. They don't just tell everyone, but it's like a secret that everyone knows. I don't know who it is obviously, but, assuming what I know is true, it isn't that hard to find out.
It's "Banksy", btw...
What do they rhink they demand the person who they don't know to appear he will have to show himself? They that dumb?
Is this actually the image now or AI?
A guy with a hammer mashing a guy with a sickle?
Many of Banksy's works are on random walls somewhere, in which case they would be worth more than the building they're attached to, but the law courts is an enormous grade 1 listed Victorian building in the middle of the Strand in London, filled up with expensive shit. It is worth a few quid by itself.

No wonder they tried to remove it, it's on a grade 1 listed building.
Are people thinking that because a wealthy and well-known artist paints on a grade 1 building, we should make an exception for him?
I think it's more that people agree with the sentiment depicted and so are seeing the reaction to it as another example of people in power ignoring the situation in Gaza.
That being said, Banksy must have known that it had to be painted over, given the historical value of the building, adding another layer to the artwork itself. It's clever, and now a new piece of it's 150 year history imo

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