‘He just sold this painting of a burning Chase bank branch on eBay for a cool $25,000 . . . It helped that he got a shitload of publicity, from two(!) police investigations.’
The work of Alex Schaefer.
Articles here and here. Alex’s blog here (he’s now ‘symbolically’ burning other buildings as part of the Occupy movement).
Found via Gawker
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