Banksy Gets Saved!

Another Banksy gets boarded up, but this time its to protect it. Click the jump for more

Banksy's Crayon House Foreclosure got covered today - with plexiglass.

The owner of the building wants to preserve the Banksy piece and possibly sell it. And in the meantime, to protect it, he put up a layer of plexiglass in front of the piece.

We really like to see this proactive stance to preserve a Banksy piece, and hopefully this will work. It would be awesome if it could even be kept on display like this.

Big thanks to Dennis for sending in these timely shots. Way to be the man on the spot!

Banksy Boarded Up -Charlie Brown Gone

The new piece of Charlie Brown street art by Banksy has been boarded up, and reportedly holes have been drilled in the side of the building around the piece, for preparation to have it removed.

We got some action shots from our friends at Hieronymus of the boarding up going down.

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Banksy is no fool. It did seem like the Jeff Koons balloon piece on La Brea last year was placed in that spot in order to be removed.

Since this entire building has burnt out and been gutted by fire, it seems like maybe this is a similar situation, and the piece might have been placed at this spot so that it could be removed.

Wonder what the reader's thoughts are on this?




***Thanks Heironymus!***