Transport for London removed the piece “some days ago,” before Banksy revealed that it was an authentic Banksy
Sneezin’ the night away. Photo: Courtesy of @banksy/Instagram The artist Banksy took to the London Underground recently, disguised as an essential worker spraying down surfaces for safety, so that he could do An Art™️ about coronavirus. On July 14, Banksy posted a video to Instagram showing him making the piece, which is called “If You Don’t Mask, You Don’t Get,” but which should have been called “Tubethumping.
The public good of the piece was lost on Transport for London, though, which took a more “the medium is the message” approach and, graffiti being graffiti, removed the piece “some days ago,” before Banksy revealed that it was an authentic Banksy. A Transport for London source told the BBC: “It was treated like any other graffiti on the network,” and that the “job of the cleaners is to make sure the network is clean, especially given the current climate.
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