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500_rumoredbanksywall.JPGAdding insult to injury, a commenter notes that the Bansky stencil on East 12th Street was covered up in renovations for a “new French bistro on ave a” with a god-awful “sea-horse tiled façade.” Whoever wrote “UGLY WTF?” was apparently reading my mind. [ANIMAL]

Bansky Gets Buffed, Life Cycle Complete

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Photo by Supertouch.

To the disappointment of all the would-be street art entrepreneurs with dollar-signs in their eyes, a Banksy stencil on East 12th Street and Avenue A was painted over recently. At a time when some stencils and paintings by Banksy are being protected and auctioned off (building included), Supertouch gleefully photographs someone painting over the Little Bo Peep stencil that went up last November. If it makes you feel better, the piece was already covered by a concrete repair job on top of the wall. That means the buff job was more of a prep service for the next artist or vandal to come along, in this case, whoever spray painted a neighborly reminder that “You are under surveillance.”