alt Hacker NewsBanksy works cost public almost £150k
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Why does it take 85k to remove it from the wall? I'm pretty sure it doesn't cost that much. There is some ridiculous government inefficiency or embezzling happening or some kind of learned helplessness or malicious compliance. Just go, wash it off and done.
It’s street art/graffiti. If someone wants to tag over it let them. Protecting this stuff with tax payer money is just stupid.
Technically this is vandalism of a govt building.
If they're so concerned about cost, why not do what you'd do with any other vandal with a spray paint can...
Immediately paint over it with grey paint to neutralize the "blight", then efficiently do a deeper clean / removal / repair the facade.
Seems like they gave the Banksy very special treatment of fence, guards, etc. and now are paying for the side effects of that.
They could do nothing and just let the art exist for free.
The Banksy cost-benefit and clean-protect loops are part of my favorite modern civic dialogs. I like it when the BBC takes the obvious side of the establishment because it is honest.
> The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) says it has spent £50,000 trying to remove paint from the wall of the Grade II-listed building in Carey Street.
How in the world do you spend £50k to remove a graffiti?
It costs only 150k? Pay the man. Its public art. Its art, and a damn sight better than the advertisements, wait... are you comparing art to ads? Get the ads to pay for the art? This article is merely government propiganda. Oh Charles... wake up! Knight Banksy noe..
why don't they just sell the works to recoup the costs?
how much does graffiti cost the public in general?
Well, prosecute him for vandalism then to recoup the costs?
And the value of nothing.
"Think of the money!" This mentality needs to go extinct. Along with billionaires.
A rounding error to support the arts.
Now do how much tourist money his works have brought in.
And well worth it. Too bad they defaced it.
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Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Timothy said: ""Our courts are a national symbol of justice and the rule of law."
It seems like someone doesn't get the symbolism of the Banksy piece.
Original art by Banksy is reportedly valued at millions of £ or $ [0]
The BBC says "Banksy works cost public almost £150k" because "The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) says it has spent £50,000 trying to remove paint from the wall of the Grade II-listed building in Carey Street."
Therefore, the title is incorrect. The cost to the public is much more than £150k. The Ministry's damage to this freely-contributed artwork has probably already cost the public a few million £, not just £150k
[0] https://www.dawsonsauctions.co.uk/news-item/how-much-is-an-o...
The article's photo of the art barricaded from public view with two security people standing guard in front of it speaks even louder than the original artwork.
And then, further down in the article, the picture of a whole structure built to block the view of the piece, with a locked door. Satire writing itself!