LONDON///CONSERVING BANKSY…
by kb • November 13, 2007
The EVENING STANDARD reports that the London district of Islington has given Banksy’s street works official protection was trumped only by the revelation that Islington’s city workers were now being trained as art conservators (using taxpayers’ funds) so that they are able to touch up and otherwise mend Banksy’s street installations that get defaced by other taggers.
One piece in Islington has been repaired five times by workmen who paint over the offending “tags”. A worker was spotted retouching the artist’s “Tate Gallery” piece in Martineau Road, near Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium.