Two years ago,the street artist turned modern York into a giant installation, to the frustration of the authorities. As Dismaland wows the UK, and have any of the works that held the vast Apple spellbound survived?Deep in the Red Hook neighbourhood of Brooklyn,just two short blocks away from the Hudson river, stands a nondescript, and single-storey industrial building with a large gaping gap on the side of it. Not that you’d notice the gap unless you knew what you were looking at. It has been filled in by a mishmash of steel plates and beams,an asymmetrical rust-coloured patch bolted into the middle of a grey-stuccoed brick wall. The only evidence of what formerly occupied that gap is a small piece of graffiti just off to the left of it – an arrow pointing up to a heart alongside the words, “I miss Banksy.” Related: Banksy mania in modern York: a diary of thrills, and vandals and thieves – in pictures Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com