Banksy's NYC street art: Trashed or very quickly treasured - Camille Vigil

     This week in New York City, the famous graffiti artist, Banksy, has unveiled his 24th piece of street art. This month he is staying in New York, creating new works throughout the city, and upon their completion, posts pictures of them, along with their location on his website and Instagram. This way, Banksy is able to keep his identity unknown, likely to elude trouble with police, seeing that his work is, after all, graffiti and is illegal. One unfortunate trend that has developed in his works in New York is that his pieces haven't lasted long, either being defaced soon after their location is revealed, or by being moved to other locations for preservation and to be sold to galleries.
     Banksy's works are known for having very profound meanings behind them, and even though graffiti is illegal, I feel that his graffiti is more than just something random spray painted on a wall in some sort of rebellion against the law or anything else. It seems to me like he uses graffiti to depict the corruptions of society, such as this piece located just outside of the infamous strip club "The Hustler Club" which shows a man holding wilting flowers. By displaying this type of graffiti for the public to see, I feel that Banksy is sort of pointing out to where people have gone wrong and it almost even seems that his art shows his disappointments what our society has become.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/24/us/new-york-banksy-art/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1