txt from: Banksy's graffiti art sells for half a million
"Perhaps the most incredible aspect of the Banksy phenomenon is neither his meteoric rise, nor the substantial sums of money that his art now commands, but that as a self-confessed guerilla artist, he has been so wholeheartedly embraced by the very establishment he satirises. We are sure that this irony is not lost on today's buyers."
video from: Banksy - The Joy of Not Being Sold Anything (via youtube) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6c87zplceQ]