Banksy reveals how painting was supposed to fully self-destruct [CBS News]
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Banksy reveals how painting was supposed to fully self-destruct Banksy posted a new video to his website implying the partial shredding of his "Girl With Balloon" at a London auction was supposed to have been complete. The video, posted Tuesday, shows the famously anonymous artist constructing the shredding mechanism inside an ornate frame and pushing a button in a black box to activate the destruction at the auction in Sotheby's in London earlier this month. The act shocked the crowd, but the winning bidder, a European collector, went ahead and bought it anyway for $1.4 million , according to the auction house. Sotheby's didn't name the buyer. The partially shredded piece was renamed, "Love is in the Bin." The partial shredding drew speculation that the act was a stunt to increase the value of the painting of a young girl reaching for a heart-shaped red balloon. The canvas was shredded to right above the girl's head, leaving the balloon intact. But the end of the new video notes, "In
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