Is it a crime to deface traffic signs?

"Or do you think it should all be welcomed by whoever and wherever -on your house, schools, bridges, walls"

Round my way, people with a spare end wall are falling over themselves to have a street art installation

"Hitler and book burning is notorious ..."

He also held in 1937 an exhibition of confiscated artworks that he considered "degenerate" featuring work by such artists as Dix, Grosz, Kirchner who are highly thought of today.

Round my way, people with a spare end wall are falling over themselves to have a street art installation.
In most places, graffiti on house walls would be seen as permission for others who want to do it whether invited or not and whether talented or not.

I didn't use the word graffiti but of course it's interesting that the highly desired current street art grew out of the grafitti movement.

For every Banksy there must be thousands of unsung, glorious graffiti artists having their art cleaned off walls, trains, bridges, etc., every day.

Banksy drew attention to a very terrible situation, but it seems what really engages people is whether it is legal and how much it is worth. It was ever thus 🙁

Farzanah

Banksy drew attention to a very terrible situation, but it seems what really engages people is whether it is legal and how much it is worth. It was ever thus 🙁

Did he? The first few people who mentioned it didn’t a) know what it was about and b) know that Banksy had done it.
Then suddenly everyone knows it was a Banksy.
‘Twas ever thus.