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Events and Offers Sign up to receive information regarding NS events, subscription offers & product updates. Ideas and Letters A newsletter showcasing the finest writing from the ideas section and the NS archive, covering political ideas, philosophy, criticism and intellectual history - sent every Wednesday. Weekly Highlights A weekly round-up of some of the best articles featured in the most recent issue of the New Statesman, sent each Saturday. The Culture Edit Our weekly culture newsletter – from books and art to pop culture and memes – sent every Friday. Green Times The New Statesman’s weekly environment email on the politics, business and culture of the climate and nature crises - in your inbox every Thursday. The New Statesman Daily The best of the New Statesman, delivered to your inbox every weekday morning. World Review The New Statesman’s global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday. The Crash A weekly newsletter helping you fit together the pieces of the global economic slowdown. Select and enter your email address Morning Call Quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. And why did the blades in his video point the wrong way? Did Sotheby’s really not take the painting out of its frame to examine it before selling it? Why was only half the picture shredded? Why was it hung near the art handlers’ entrance in the saleroom so they could rush in and remove it with impressive haste? Who consigned the picture to auction and who was the buyer? “A few years ago, I secretly built a shredder into a painting,” confessed Banksy, but no mention of how he kept the batteries topped up for so long or of how the shredder was set in motion. The whole stunt though was fishier than a tin of anchovies. “It appears we just got Banksy-ed,” said Alex Branczik, Sotheby’s head of contemporary art in Europe, good-naturedly, as if he were merely the victim of a Jeremy Beadle prank. For those outside that world there was a delicious frisson in seeing a million pounds reduced to fettuccine and a battery-farm’s worth of egg on the faces of the art hawkers and speculators gathered in the room.īanksy released a video shortly afterwards showing how he had hidden a row of scalpel blades in the frame ready to activate this theatrical moment of auto-destruction. The self-shredding of Banksy’s celebrated Girl With a Balloon picture, seconds after it was sold at Sotheby’s for £1.04m, was, apparently, a typically irreverent response by the arch iconoclast to the over-inflated, money-driven contemporary art world – less ballooning than mooning. Perhaps in the end the real story isn't that Banksy destroyed his painting, but ended up creating a new piece of art after all even when it didn't go completely as planned.Oh how we laughed. "It is a different work to the one that appeared in the catalogue, but nonetheless it is an intentional work of art, not a destroyed painting," the Sotheby's spokeswoman told The Art Newspaper on Wednesday. Now a week later, the same piece of shredded art "Girl With Balloon" has a new name (approved by Banksy) - " Love Is in the Bin" - according to an announcement from Sotheby's on Oct. This is especially curious since Sotheby's employees immediately took the half-shredded art off the wall then took it into another room away from prying eyes. #LoveIsInTheBin #Banksy /HXE3bdd7Jo- Sotheby's October 11, 2018Īrt lovers continue to spread theories that the Sotheby's auction house itself was in on the prank. Newly titled ‘Love is in the Bin’, the piece has become the first artwork in history to have been created live during an auction.
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