Auction of a piece of street art by Banksy
Today, unless the auction in Miami by Fine Arts Auctions Miami gallery will be halted at the last moment, a Banksy mural will be auctioned. It is believed the work can be sold for up to $700,000 (£450,000). The work, known as Slave Labour , was removed from a wall in Wood Green, north London, and later turned up in Miami to be sold. It is a beautiful work and it is ironic that a piece that depicts a barefooted boy making union flag bunting in a sewing machine, hence the name of the work, may make a thief rich. Because let us be clear, when something is removed from a wall without anyone knowing it until after it has been removed, then it is taken illegally and thus stolen. Of course, homeowners can remove something they bought and placed against their wall unless society decides it no longer can be removed. In the UK there is much commotion about this removal because the painting appeared on the wall only just before the Diamond Jubilee last year, celebrating 60 years of Queen Elis...