Art doesn't need to just be about the piece itself, it comes with all the baggage of the Banksy v Robbo stories and the meaning behind the pieces existing.
Why has Robbo done this work?
Why is Robbo having a show?
Why did Robbo attack Banksy pieces on the street?

If you look around the art world you might come across Artists work that makes you think hmmmmm are they havin a laugh!
Well maybe they are, maybe their not! only they can say, and even then they might only tell you what they think you want to hear.

Robbo might think he's playing a joke on all the people who visit and buy work at the show, maybe this is serious work by Robbo? who knows.

Lets just say its a joke that doesn't mean somebody might really love a piece of this work, and enjoy it on display in their home for years to come

Some people think Mr Brainwash's work is just a joke, but others seem to think he's the biggest thing since Warhol

sweet... wheres my red star ?

How many people, amateur or serious collector, buy art that they have been tipped to buy?
As has been said before; the art market is one of the only sectors that allows insider trading, or words to that effect.
You only have to look at most banksy buyers now to see that they are looking past the art to the value, and the money that they can spin from the purchase.
People are going to rely on the associated background and hype outlined above, to allow themselves to look past the surface offering / what's on the canvas.
Yes people might like what they see on the canvas, and buy and keep, and display for years to come on that basis, but it is likely that a larger proportion of those that do buy will be buying panic buying for the reasons above.

...in all honesty Silky, how often do you think; i don't care what they're discussing on this forum, i'm just glad they're discussing it on my forum?! I do like your little encoraging questions that you insert from time to time to keep the posts flowing!

like I say we can all say was art is/is not even if we don't know exactly why something is art, the question is, is it good art or bad art. Duchamp successfully redefined what art could be many years ago. The K foundation made an interesting point about art and money in one of the greatest avant guard acts of art in the last 50 years. If you can find it look for both the documentaries by the KFoundation burning their million £ and also Tony Kay's transition from advertising guru to artist, where he investigates what suddenly makes him an artisit and what art can be.

Lots of people saying how they don't like the possible new Nick Walker print, and the new Bast French Kiss print with no problems
Its when you get people who are abusive, or aggressively battling with people who don't agree with them.
What you call "Middle Ground" is a big grey area that I think this forum gets it right more than most.

thanks for this stickitup, will look into.

This new stuff from Robbo leaves much to be desired.
Not all art is pictures on walls (no pun intended. LOL), I think that is forgotten too often on this forum. Robbo best art can't necessarily transfer into a gallery. His art is about process, it is more conceptual in nature. The simple act of his relentless 'getting up' (even if it is just to destroy Banksy's now) is an act of art itself. Much in the same way Tox, Neckface, Adek, the list goes on, are magnificently tiresome in their efforts to bomb city's and get up everywhere!
For me. I don't see these street writers as any more, or any less, than what is going on in a gallery. I love looking at a Neckface tag in an absolutely absurd place high above the skyline in manhattan, or an adek piece that is so big and precise and in the middle of a crowded intersection.
Fair play to Charlie for putting on this show. Robbo would not have agreed if he didn't want to do it either. But I truly don't think all artists need a gallery to exhibit the best of their work. The best of Robbo's is in situ on the street.

they are both a few years old maybe 10 years+ but were shown on terrestrial tv (BBC, ITV,or CH4) the Tony Kay one has a couple of amusing bits where he contemplates walking into a gallery and $hitting on the floor as an act of art. I think I videoed them but transferring videos to dvd is something I am not able to do unfortunately.

Whatever the reason for this show, he is still cashing in on his spat with Banksy.

still looks like a frog to me