[pippy]

In most cases Banksy doesn't ask for permission.

[fastball]

Exactly, which is why Bloomberg considers Banksy a vandal.

[jychang]

Yet he's widely considered an artist.

In an CS proofs class, that would be considered a "proof by contradiction".

[arrrg]

Only if you assume that vandalism and art are mutually exclusive.

I must say, I quite love this seeming (or maybe it’s real?) contradiction. There are no absolutes. That’s what makes Banksy’s work so cool.

[biot]

I could chisel down Michelangelo's David statue into a skeletal structure of David. I'm sure you could appreciate that both as art and an act of vandalism.