{"id":178631,"date":"2018-10-08T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/08\/banksey-is-a-fing-genius\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T22:44:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T03:44:00","slug":"banksey-is-a-fing-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/08\/banksey-is-a-fing-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"Banksey is a F%$#ing Genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ynHl7bU_aPU\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Brilliant<\/i><\/div>\n<p>A Banksy painting sold at Sotheby&#8217;s for over \u00a31 million.<\/p>\n<p>Once the auction was completed, Banksey, or someone affiliated with him, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-bristol-45770028\">triggered the shredder built into the picture frame<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Banksy has released a video showing how he secretly built a shredder into one of his paintings that self-destructed after it was sold for more than \u00a31m.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The framed Girl With Balloon, one of the artist&#8217;s best known works, was auctioned by Sotheby&#8217;s in London.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Moments after the piece was sold, the canvas of a girl reaching for a heart-shaped balloon shredded itself.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Quoting Picasso on his Instagram, Banksy wrote: &#8220;The urge to destroy is also a creative urge &#8211; Picasso.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The clip starts with a caption, saying: &#8220;A few years ago, I secretly built a shredder into a painting.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The video then shows someone in a hoodie installing the device, before another caption, saying: &#8220;In case it was ever put up for auction.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The video then shows the moment the painting shredded itself at the auction house on Friday, captured on a mobile phone.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">It is unclear how the shredder was activated.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Moments before, the 2006 stencilled spray-painting had sold for \u00a31.042m.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;It appears we just got Banksy-ed,&#8221; said Alex Branczik, Sotheby&#8217;s senior director and head of contemporary art in Europe.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got to believe that Banksy is the secret love child of Eug\u00e8ne Ionesco, spiritually, if not genetically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brilliant A Banksy painting sold at Sotheby&#8217;s for over \u00a31 million. Once the auction was completed, Banksey, or someone affiliated with him, triggered the shredder built into the picture frame: Banksy has released a video showing how he secretly built a shredder into one of his paintings that self-destructed after it was sold for more &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[388,504,584],"class_list":["post-178631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art","tag-philosophy","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}