Because Banksy is the art community’s biggest troll, his dramatic choice earlier this month to automatically shred one of his most famous paintings the moment it was sold at auction for $1.4 million was not particularly surprising.
A new “Director’s Cut” of the artist’s initial video depicting that now-infamous moment Girl with Balloon met the shredder, however, shows that not everything went according to plan: while the painting was ultimately shredded halfway through during an auction at Sotheby’s Auction House, the artist had intended to shred the entire painting.
The scene, as captured in the video above, devolved into chaos anyway. Security guards whisk the half-framed painting away like the Secret Service would a politician;...
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