my God. in which world have lived

 

Too dumb to own a Banksy.

How smart do you need to be to own one ? Is there a minimum level required ?

Yes, the level where you know you shouldn't shred it.

That rules Banksy out from owning his own stuff.

own up , who was it ?  .................

I would guess Sotheby's asked the owner (Jo Brooks?) and the owner (who I think would be someone in the Banksy team as they would not leave this to chance) was told to say the frame was made by Banksy and part of the artwork. Once that is said then Sotheby's would need to confirm with Pest Control or they might be effecting part of an artwork that they knew would get high six figures. Sotheby's and PC no doubt have contact on high end artwork, so relatively normal for this to happen. Easy for PC to say to Sotheby's that they cannot take it out. That was enough for Sotheby's to think of the £s & $s and leave it as is.

I do not think Sothebys had anything to do with this as that goes against everything Banksy has positioned himself with to date. Banksy has positioned himself outside the art establishment since his first exhibition. Sotheby's are 100% art establishment. But you never know.

Ofcourse Banksy and PC were not giving out all the facts, if they did then this would not have worked. From what I understand that video that Banksy posted was initially pulled quite quickly from his social media but someone recorded it and that recording went viral then Banksy re-uploaded it. 

definitely time to shred any Pekham rock postcards.

Just catching up with this thread, loved the stunt but thought Banksy should have just stayed quiet about the whole thing. The story about building the shredder into the frame just incase was a bit difficult to swallow.

Good fun all in all though

 That's just post hype , hype and nothing more.

Someone says it's now worth zillions of trillions because of a cheap stunt.

Which proves that the whole Banksy hype and marketing machine is obsessed with money and so is Banksy.

Am I the only one who thinks the blades in the shredder are placed wrong? They are cutting from left to right and this makes it impossible to cut paper like it came out of the frame....

 The Sotheby's stunt reminds me of this.  www.nytimes.com/2013/11/09/nyregion/bidders-cry-foul-over-auction-of-banksy-painting.html

  I don't believe that Banksy shredded anything at the Sothebys sale.

  The blades that are shown where Banksy hands are building the shredder are facing side ways and won't shred anything. Paper shredders don't work that way and any paper lowered through those blades would just get stuck.

     The image on paper coming out of the frame is curved or curled at the bottom. What would cause that so quickly to a very flat artwork on paper in the frame?

  Sothebys did not notice the wide gap or slit running along the underside of the fat frame?

  So unless Banksy actually shows this device in action with the back board removed shredding a single authentic print that is inside the visible from front part of the frame. It's safe to assume either that the art on paper in the front is actually longer than it looks with another image with a shredded part at the bottom of it that went through some sort of roller to show coming out the bottom of the frame. Or the front image went up and an image hidden in the back pre-shredded, went down.


 Nice try but no cigar for Banksy or Sothebys.

They both got publicity from this cheap stunt and the hype an dmoney train continues for a while at least.

Banksy has always been a business and marketing plan.

You can believe otherwise.

Whether he has a business and marketing plan or not, you are still missing the point.  

Click on the Guardian link above and have a read.  It explains things better than I could.