Blog 2... News

Well, looking to the arts news I chose one called "Banksy artwork painted over in Hackney"
This is about a Banksy graffiti that was painted in the side of a block of flats in a city of London. This artwork has been there about 8 years ago, but now a council wants to remove it. It is told that Banky's artwork is very recognized and that his works have been sold for a lot of money, so people was upset of what was happening, even the owner of the building says that when she saw that the graffiti was beeing removed she couldn`t believed it and she wanted them to stop eraseing that piece of art. But obviously the council doesn`t care if it is a piece of art or not...they just wanted to "clean" the streets, they've said.
Well, finaly.. the journalist say it is not the first time that Banksy artworks have been removed.

So, I chose this article because this kind of things almost happen in our country...an authorities doesn`t care about art in the streets, so I found interesting to know what´s up with this in other cities.

Here is the link:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/sep/03/banksy-artwork-painted-over-hackney