artist: Santiago Morilla
location: Madrid
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Usually Banksy's work on the street has a tough life: it's either prized off by profiteers (later sold or exhibited in lame exhibitions), vandalized, or put behind plastic to protect its value. Occasionally a Banksy survives for a decent length of time in reasonable condition.
Rarely though is a Banksy just ignored, as the 'girl with watering can' is. It seems fitting that of all the places a Banksy might be ignored, Hollywood is the place, where churning through former stars is business as usual.
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artist: Banksy
location: La Brea, Los Angeles
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From Banksy's 2007 LA expedition.
This is in a Valero gas station, by the car wash, relatively undisturbed by the passing traffic.