Christopher Walken painted over a genuine Banksy piece to close out the BBC drama series, The Outlaws.
For the show’s series finale, Walken’s character Frank, joined by his probation officer Diane, can be seen finishing his community service by painting over graffiti. He uncovers the monochromatic Banksy piece, entitled The Rat, and the artist tag above it and tries his best to convince his probation officer that the art should be left alone. She isn’t phased by his feelings for The Rat, however, so Frank ends up rolling over the piece to end the show.
A statement was made to CNN on behalf of The Outlaws, confirming that the scene featured a real Banksy piece and that Walken’s actions effectively destroyed the one-of-a-kind piece. “We can confirm that the artwork at the end of ‘The Outlaws’ was an original Banksy, and that Christopher Walken painted over that artwork during the filming of this scene, ultimately destroying it,” the statement read.
Sotheby’s on Thursday announced that it would accept live bidding increments in Ether, the cryptocurrency tied to the Ethereum blockchain, for two of Banksy’s works up for auction.
A first for the auction world, Sotheby’s auctioneer will field bids in the New York saleroom in Ether for Banksy’s Trolley Hunters and Love Is In The Air (2006) as part of the ‘The Now Evening Auction’ on November 18. The event will also be livestreamed across Sotheby’s social media channels, included a dedicated Discord channel.
“The paradigm-shifting move marks the first time that a cryptocurrency will be used as the standard currency for bidding on physical artworks in real-time during a live auction,” Sotheby’s said in a statement.
Sotheby’s announced in May that it would accept cryptocurrency as payment, becoming the first auction house to do so. Banksy’s Love is in the Air was up for bidding at the time, selling for $12.9 million USD.
The artist’s Trolley Hunters — described as “a typically powerful, witty and prophetic critique of society’s often irrational predilection for processed and packaged product” — is expected to fetch between $5-7 million USD. Love Is In The Air (2006) — heralded as “one of Banksy’s most iconic and immediately recognizable images” — is expected to sell for $4-6 million USD.
Sotheby’s continues to set records in the blockchain space. Last month, the auction house sold a rare Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT for a record $3.4 million USD.
In other news, Sotheby’s November sale week is expected to garner $1 billion USD.
The generative sculpture known as HUMAN ONE was auctioned off as part of Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale on November 9.
The work — a kinetic video sculpture with a corresponding dynamic NFT — is designed to continuously display artwork that will evolve over time. Beeple will have remote access to the artwork and creative control over its content forever.
Noah Davis, the head of digital sales at Christie’s, called the artwork a “triumphant follow-up to the artist’s notorious EVERYDAYS: The First 5000 Days.”
“With HUMAN ONE, Beeple brings the highly polished, cartoon-dystopian hallucinations of his ongoing EVERYDAYS series boldly into the round via a towering, chromed-out monolith of slowly rotating LED screens,” Davis said in a statement. “The hero of the work is a lone astronaut, forever striding through the wastes of a vaguely familiar world, one strewn with oversize Pop icons in various states of decay or perversion, punctuated by the occasional spray of flora, desolate stretches of sand dunes and a few nods to some of the titans of Art History.”
Winkelmann told Davis that he was inspired to create the sculpture over the summer when he combined several TV screens on wheels into different shapes and patterns. “We immediately realized that this configuration of screens was a powerful canvas — anything we put on it looked awesome.”
Japanese graphic artist VERDY recently collaborated with Levi’s for a Wasted Youthand Girls Don’t Cry collection and is now set to debut his solo exhibition entitled “RISE ABOVE.” The renowned Osaka-born creative has been busy with a number of joint efforts these past months as he was also tapped for other clothing capsules with the likes of Zepanese Club and The Good Company, Sound Museum Vision and Contact as well as an eyewear series with NIGO’s JINS & SUN.
Numerous projects with other brands have blended with his own recognized brands, “Girls Don’t Cry” and “Wasted Youth” since he joined the VK DESIGN WORKScollective in 2007. For his latest showcase, VERDY’s iconic original characters VICK and VISTY — well noted in previous collaborations — will be presented in various shaped canvas paintings along with three-dimensional pieces for the first time ever in his career with the production aided by Kaikai Kiki’s studio.
“In this exhibition, I have projected these elements onto my alter egos, VICK and VISTY. In addition, I also created my first three-dimensional work with Kaikai Kiki Studio, and it turned out great, so I hope many people will see it and enjoy it,” as stated by VERDY.
The “RISE ABOVE” exhibition will run from November 19 to December 9. For more details, interested parties may visit Kaikai Kiki Gallery’s website.
In case you missed it, Damien Hirst presented his latest installment “Emergency Paintings, Danger Paintings, Hazard Pictures, and Seizures.”
Kaikai Kiki Gallery
Motoazabu Crest Building
B1F, 2-3-30 Motoazabu,
Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0046
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