Banksy in the gun sight: Banksy artwork painted over in Hackney

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/sep/03/banksy-artwork-painted-over-hackney

Banksy is a very well known artist, he paints on walls, he is a graffitti artist.Last week the Hackney council sent a group of workers to paint over a graffitti done eight years ago. People from Stoke Newington didn't agree with the decision, they were devasted because every graffitti was removed from the streets and the authorities never consult to the owner of the building that had the painting on, they said the tried to contact her. The responses they gave(the council) were "Hackney council does not make a judgment call on whether graffiti is art or not, our task is to keep Hackney's streets clean." And that is The point, they just make their work but don't worrie about the artistic value of the things, is easy to make a difference between somethin according to the landscape and well painted and that also has a sense in comparison of scrawls or messages that have no sense and just are done for people who want to scratch.