Gallery's Exhibition of Banksy Street Art Removed From Walls: 'Cultural Looting' or Valuable Commodities Ripe for the Picking?

Over the years, we’ve seen a number of instances where people have cried foul over the removal of a piece of Banksy street art, particularly when it involves the remover’s getting rewarded with a large batch of cash. After all, as we wrote back in 2008, “Banksy Makes Walls Worth Millions.” We last saw an instance of what the site VIT.B has quoted some as calling “cultural looting” back in August of last year, when a couple of Banksies were removed from walls in an abandoned building in Detroit and showed