Banksy Does New York Page #5

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"New York calls to graffiti writers

like a dirty, old lighthouse."

And it's true.

It's the birthplace of graffiti.

Of course banksy chose New York,

the midwife of graffiti.

So, I think an artist like banksy

really needed a little bit

of that credit.

Back in red hook,

the owners of the building

with the red balloon

decided to play it safe

and put up plexiglas

to prevent any more graffiti

on top of the graffiti.

Fans now waiting to see

what tomorrow will bring,

if it brings anything banksy at all.

Suddenly, someone posts

an address on Twitter.

Okay, here it is.

After a false alarm,

we eventually find it.

What do you think?

It's cool because we're one

of the first to get here.

Once

Everyone after photographic proof

before too many others discover it.

The attention was too much

for the building's owners.

They started covering it up,

despite one rich man's best attempts.

$1,000 for the door right now.

And I'll buy you a new door...

Home depot... today.

His last piece sold for $400,000,

and it was a piece of stucco.

So, I would be glad

to hang that up on my wall.

Oh, man. Come on, man.

He didn't get his way.

Just like that, it was gone.

Instagram users hot on the banksy trail

posted pictures

of workers taking down the door,

hashtagged #dolladollabills.

All right, and now we come up

to the section that

everyone's been waiting for.

This is the banksy portion

of the auction.

So, people are taking banksy's work,

they're cutting them out of the wall,

and they're selling them

without authorization

and making a lot of money.

But what you see around banksy

is not money that banksy

is making day after day,

though that's the impression

in the press,

and that's the impression

that the gallery people who have

taken his rather stolen work

and put it up at auction

would like to give.

And we're selling it for $170,000

to Megan Thorne, bidders.

My name is Stephan keszler.

I'm the owner of the keszler gallery.

Southampton is the bathing

and recreation area of New York...

Hedge-fund guys and people

with very good income.

So here, we have one

of the most famous banksy works

from Bethlehem, the west bank.

The name is "wet dog."

In 10 years, this will be millions.

And if you compare this with basquiat

or with Keith haring

or even with Damien hirst,

you pay for something in

this size that is important...

$10 million, $20 million.

$6,200.

A few arguments by people is,

"oh, it's not banksy's intention

that this is in a gallery

or this is in a private collection.

My answer is always,

"it was not Picasso's intention

when he painted a beautiful woman

or gave a piece to the hairdresser

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