As John Terry ages, he looks more and more like the Zimmerman man from old skool

I have news.

"Liverpool Rat (estimated sale price £200,000):
Britain’s biggest creation by renowned graffiti artist Banksy adorned The White House pub in Liverpool, on the edge of the city’s China Town. Banksy daubed the huge rat wielding a machine gun on the Georgian building as part of the city's Biennial art programme in 2004. The giant rat has been eroding for years, with large parts having peeled off with the plaster or vanished on rotted wood. The bottom half has been covered up by the Culture Company with hoardings because the building has fallen into disrepair. With growing fears over the feasibility of any kind of preservation, in May 2013 the work was removed to be restored and pieced back together. The piece is being sold in an unrestored state for those wishing to invest in a restoration project (once fully restored we would estimate a value of £500k)."

It's in bits isn't it.

"Please note: The Sincura Group do not steal art nor do we condone any acts of wanted vandalism or theft. We do not own the pieces of art, nor encourage their removal and to date have made no financial gain from the sales of street art. If assigned to manage a piece of art we ensure the salvage, restoration and sale is carried out in a professional and sympathetic manner."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

There are still a few tickets left to the most sensational (and controversial) art exhibition of all time, Stealing Banksy? At ME London – THIS WEEK!

"Celebrity guests will include:
Mr.Selfridge himself, Jeremy Piven
Tinie Tempah
Emma Bunton
Mel C
Kelly Hoppen
Plan B
Olly Murs
Rudimental
Zane Lowe
Karen Millen
Yasmin Le Bon and many, many more… "

Yes, but who's the leading London graffiti artist that they hired to wow the guests?

Or more likely, the liverpool rat is completely unfixable so they want to sting someone good and proper on it. Cant see these leeches missing out on a fast buck no matter what!!

The Liverpool rat is surely too large for anyone to actually own. It's basically a 30-foot tall, "mixed media" artwork.

You'd need a huge apartment and a team of builders. It must just be fragments of wood and plaster.

Whatever happened to the Huge Roller Highwayman that was dismantled ? Haven't seen any pic's of it re assembled anywhere...

Better be careful and not get caught as may not be allowed within a 100 yards of any of Banksy works lmao

Artist Who Painted Over Banksy Mural Pleads Guilty on Felony Charges

Sarah Cascone, Friday, April 11, 2014

Los Angeles property owners who welcome Banksy’s unsolicited graffiti art on their buildings have been markedly less appreciative of work by David William Noll. The Modesto artist, responsible for vandalizing two area Banksy works, has pleaded guilty on two felony counts, reports Curbed Los Angeles.
Although Banksy started out as an underground, antiestablishment street artist, his work has gained international prestige, offering considerable cachet for real estate owners lucky enough to find their property has become a canvas for the world’s most famous graffiti artist.
While a Banksy will generally increase property values (by $650,000, according to one of the two owners in the case at hand), Noll’s reimagining of Peeing Dog and Girl on Swing, in which he recorded himself painting over the two works, landed him in a Los Angeles courtroom. (Noll’s YouTube videos documenting his acts, which helped the police track him down, have since been removed.) For his art/crimes, Noll will serve 3 years’ probation and 60 days community labor. He also is subject to a restraining order of sorts, and must not come within a hundred yards of Banksy paintings.
Although the so-called art by both men was unsolicited, according to Los Angeles police, a graffiti vandal will only be prosecuted if the property owner complains. Far from complaining, property owners should probably be thanking Banksy, considering the number of the artist’s works that have been removed and sold for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars.
Fine Art Auctions Miami sold Kissing Coppers for $575,000 at auction earlier this year, while Detroit’s 555 Gallery recently came under fire for announcing plans to sell a Banksy mural they had previously saved from a condemned Detroit factory. In New Orleans, only vigilance from local community members prevents would-be thieves from successfully stealing Girl With Umbrella.

>>>has anyone made a guess about what these artworks will actually make tonight?<<<

Nothing will receive a bid for more than 40k but we will read in articles afterwards that they sold for hundreds of thousands.

Thank you, I was however merely laughing out loud rather more than normal and neither pissing myself or becoming detached from my anus as a result of said laughter.
Thanks though.

For fcuk sake dreadman,
I acknowledge I made you a shit coffee but you could have save one for me man!!!

What the hell is going on with that? Over 500 quid?!?

Yup..

Good evening to amysouthcott and numbnutsthrthird.

Although The Sincura Group may announce figures next week ().

This Banksy person must be used to oddness.  Does anyone remember this? - I think it is on the same scale of this Madness