Flickr is all of a sudden atwitter with photos of Banksy surfacing in New Orleans just prior to and following Hurricane Gustav. With so much graffiti devolving into loud, gratuitous tagging and branding, it's great be reminded of the potential of graffiti as a spontaneous, accessible medium for thought-provoking art. On the same token, it's a bit counter-productive of Banksy's fans to actually steal his art. Seems a bit unprincipled in its irony - after all, isn't its fleeting nature one of the inherent appeals of graffiti?
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