A pretty penny: Three Banksy artworks cost taxpayers £150,000 in upkeep

Three Banksy artworks have cost taxpayers almost one hundred fifty thousand pounds in cleaning, security, and maintenance—and the bill keeps climbing, according to The Guardian. A mural on the Royal Courts of Justice in London, painted last September, accounts for more than eighty-five thousand pounds of that total through removal efforts and security measures. The rising costs have prompted a shadow justice secretary to demand that Banksy himself pay up, though others argue his work makes art accessible to the public at large.

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