The week’s big arts story has been the photogenic, sort-of destruction of a Banksy painting at auction. When the hammer went down on his 2006 work “Girl With Balloon” at Sotheby’s, a mechanism in the frame shredded the work. When The Times’ August Brown reached out to Banksy’s representative for comment, he was offered a quote by Picasso: “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.” Los Angeles Times

Source: Los Angeles Times October 13, 2018 17:03 UTC