Croydon: First it was Sarkozy, now it’s Banksy
Croydon gets the Banksy treatment
AFTER THIS, I promise to stop banging on about walls and pavements for a while…
“Banksy strikes again” is hardly headline news, but the UK artist just keeps on coming up with the goods.
The piece they’re all talking about is in Croydon (a drab south London suburb that Nicolas Sarkozy named as a model for le Grand Paris; see article in The Times). Technically, it should have been scrubbed, since it is graffiti and on council property – but who’d scrub a Banksy these days? The council put it to a public ballot instead. Locals, unsurprisingly, feel honoured by Banksy’s attentions and are already rather attached to their DIY punk. They’ve voted to keep it. More at Vandalog.
With the almost-exception of Miss-Tic, Parisian street artists lack Banksy’s pith (and his PR nouse.) But there’s still a lot going on, going up, and going down on the French side of the Channel. A good place to start is with Invisible Paris’ self-guided tour. Have fun!
- Miss-Tic is currently showing at Galerie Ab, 15 rue de la Grange-Batalière, 9th arr, Paris.
