Banksy Does New York Page #3
Suddenly, someone posts
an address on Twitter.
Okay, here it is.
After a false alarm,
we eventually find it.
What do you think?
It's cool because we're one
of the first to get here.
Once
Everyone after photographic proof
before too many others discover it.
The attention was too much
for the building's owners.
despite one rich man's best attempts.
$1,000 for the door right now.
And I'll buy you a new door...
Home depot... today.
His last piece sold for $400,000,
and it was a piece of stucco.
So, I would be glad
to hang that up on my wall.
Oh, man. Come on, man.
He didn't get his way.
Just like that, it was gone.
Instagram users hot on the banksy trail
posted pictures
of workers taking down the door,
hashtagged #dolladollabills.
All right, and now we come up
to the section that
everyone's been waiting for.
This is the banksy portion
of the auction.
So, people are taking banksy's work,
they're cutting them out of the wall,
and they're selling them
without authorization
and making a lot of money.
But what you see around banksy
is not money that banksy
though that's the impression
in the press,
and that's the impression
that the gallery people who have
taken his rather stolen work
and put it up at auction
would like to give.
And we're selling it for $170,000
to Megan Thorne, bidders.
My name is Stephan keszler.
I'm the owner of the keszler gallery.
Southampton is the bathing
and recreation area of New York...
Hedge-fund guys and people
with very good income.
So here, we have one
of the most famous banksy works
from Bethlehem, the west bank.
The name is "wet dog."
In 10 years, this will be millions.
And if you compare this with basquiat
or with Keith haring
or even with Damien hirst,
you pay for something in
this size that is important...
$10 million, $20 million.
$6,200.
"oh, it's not banksy's intention
that this is in a gallery
or this is in a private collection.
My answer is always,
"it was not Picasso's intention
when he painted a beautiful woman
or gave a piece to the hairdresser
as a present
or 30 years later at
an auction house for millions."
I think, at a certain point,
when he does it,
it's not his business anymore.
Banksy is never
authenticating street art.
He puts every work he does
on his website.
So, if it's on his website,
it's an authentication of his work.
But I think if he goes to bed at night
and he thinks about what we do,
he's grateful about what we do.
You want to see this?
We got contacted from a middleman
the "wet dog"
and the "stop and search"...
From west bank to New York.
"Stop and search."
It's very smart, what he does.
I hope one day he will admit
that I'm good for him,
and then we can work together
with all the hustle.
This would be my dream.
With banksy,
you never know happens tomorrow.
And we hope we will do this
for a long time.
Did you see "house of cards"?
- Yeah.
- I love Kevin spacey.
Morning!
Good morning!
What day of the week is it?
Is it Wednesday?
It's Wednesday.
I noticed a lot more traffic
on the way in,
so maybe it's the...
I'm already nervous
about banksky, aren't you?
Yep, I'm already nervous,
looking around.
Let's see if there's anything there.
We're in Times Square.
We just got word there is a gigantic...
- It's a war horse!
- ...Banksky piece...
A war horse!
...on the lower east side.
We got a tip on Twitter.
Hey, puppy.
Come on.
Keep shooting.
Hotel 2-6, crazy horse 1-8.
Crazy horse 1-8,
this is hotel 2-6. Over.
All right, we just
engaged all eight individuals.
1-8, we also have one individual,
appears to be wounded
trying to crawl away.
He's getting up.
Maybe he has a weapon down in his hand?
No, no, I haven't seen one yet.
Come on, buddy.
All you gotta do is pick up a weapon.
For more than 2 1/2 years,
the wire service reuters
has been trying to find out
what happened to their two staff members
on this street
in the suburb of new Baghdad.
Wikileaks says this is what happened.
Hotel 2-6, crazy horse 1-8,
have five to six individuals
with ak-47s.
Light them all up.
Come on. Fire.
Roger.
Keep shooting.
Keep shooting.
Crazy horse 1-8,
this is hotel 2-6. Over.
From a distance,
you hear the voices on the tape
watch as the wounded
try to crawl to help,
but when help arrives...
Come on.
Clear.
Even from high above,
the harsh reality
becomes evident as the troops
that arrive claim two children, wounded.
You see them carry their small
bodies and call for help.
The response on the tape...
To tie it into something
that's so real and to, I guess,
refocus people's attention
not just on him,
but to use that attention...
To refocus it on this larger issue of,
like, "what are we paying attention to?"
Banksy managed to create
this huge installation
on the lower east side
There was a blue tarp for a while up.
Then the blue tarp came down.
I think it's kind of cool that
he's, like, this elusive artist.
Banksy has promised
to create a new work of art
every day this month in New York,
and no matter where the art pops up,
it's sure to cause lots of drama
on the streets.
These two images
were posted not long ago
on banksy's website.
It's graffiti, but depicting a beaver
chewing down a street sign,
but the caption
says "east New York," so...
Yes. so, there's a hint.
You want to take a picture,
it's gonna cost something,
or the sh*t could just get broke.
$100,000 portrait.
We're trying to get this up.
But before we ruin it,
we'd rather leave it so y'all
can come and take a picture.
See, I don't give
a... they see it.
They're not taking no pictures.
These guys in the east
New York section of Brooklyn
are actually charging people $5
to take pictures of graffiti.
You want to take a picture,
it's gonna cost something...
And some people are actually paying.
We're trying to get some bread.
This is my hood.
So, you want us to pay
to take a picture?
Yes.
You came for what you came
for... to take that picture.
$20 ain't worth that for you?
I could step on this sh*t.
It don't matter to me.
Y'all wouldn't come here
if this wasn't here.
It's worth more to you
that this is here than to me.
People were going to the Bronx,
probably a part of the Bronx
they've never been to.
I mean, people went to east New York,
and they were going to a part of queens
that I think most new yorkers
have never been to.
He really shines a light on topics
that people quite often
don't want to talk about.
And one that he shined
a light on in this experience
is gentrification, you know,
the fact that he was putting
his artwork in places in New York City
that art collectors,
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