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Love is in the Bin is a 2018 art intervention by Banksy at Sotheby's London. According to Sotheby's, it is "the first artwork in history to have been created live during an auction." [1] His 2006 painting of Girl with Balloon unexpectedly self-destructed immediately after it was sold at auction.
In 2018, a framed copy of the work was shredded after being sold at auction by way of a mechanical device Banksy had hidden inside the frame. Banksy confirmed that he was responsible for the shredding and gave the altered piece a new name, Love is in the Bin. Sotheby's said it was "the first work in history ever created during a live auction."
Cave art hoax with accompanying exhibit label, hung on a wall in the British Museum, removed after two or three days and subsequently accessioned; in 2005. [1]Two works jetwashed away and a third work, of a boy holding a stereo and a teddy bear, the subject of legal action opposing its ablation by Hackney Council in order "to keep streets clean", in Dalston, London; in 2009.
The original files from the practice sessions leading up to the event, saved on a long-lost diskette, have resurfaced and are now being sold for $26 million in a private sale.
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Dated to circa 1500, Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi,” which depicts Jesus Christ, took the art world by storm in 2017 when it sold for a stupefying $450.3 million. According to Christie ...
Vandalism of art is intentional damage of an artwork. The object, usually exhibited in public, becomes damaged as a result of the act, and remains in place right after the act. This may distinguish it from art destruction and iconoclasm, where it may be wholly destroyed and removed, and art theft, or looting.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal on the ground that the claim was raised too late (72 years after the work was sold and 58 years after it was donated to the art museum). [224] Pablo Picasso : Femme en blanc oil on canvas, 1922 Carlotta Landsberg Collection Claim against Marilynn Alsdorf