I read about another Banksy piece being painted over today. It’s unreal that graffiti removal crews will paint over pieces worth more than US $500,000, and then keep on doing it. Here’s a small list.. I’m sure there are ton more that have been painted over:

• February 2007: “Workers from Network Rail painted over a set of doors to an electricity generator on which the secretive artist had sprayed a monkey preparing to blow up a bunch of bananas.”
• April 2007: “Transport workers in London have painted over a mural by world-renowned graffiti artist Banksy, erasing a piece of art estimated to be worth $500,000 (250,000 pounds).”
• March 2007: “A group of bungling council workers have painted over one of the earliest surviving murals by guerrilla graffiti artist Banksy.
  The 25ft x 4ft design, thought to be worth more than £100,000, was mistaken as vandalism by workmen who slapped thick black paint over it.”
• February 2008: “The famous maid stencil by Banksy is in a parlous state. Someone has painted over most of the image, and stenciled the words ‘all the best’ over the top.”
• September 2008: “The painting of a child flying a refrigerator-shaped kite by fabled British graffiti artist Banksy on St. Claude Ave. near St. Anthony St. has been painted over.”
• March 2009: “As of very recently, Banksy’s “One Nation Under CCTV” image in Westminister has been painted over with a single coat of very grey paint.”
• July 2009: “I’ve seen this one in the flesh. Its in the suburbs of Bamako in Mali, West Africa. Banksy was there about 4-5 months ago. Sadly this has been partially painted over.”
• September 2009: “Council officials have painted over a Banksy graffito sketch from which a reworked version was derived as the cover artwork for the 2003 single Crazy Beat by the band Blur.”
  

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