Undermining the establishment has always been at the heart of Banksy’s work, indeed, taking the artworld down a peg or two has particular currency in his imagery and ideology. It should therefore have come as no surprise that Banksy would mastermind perhaps the most extraordinary and elaborate feat of artistic subterfuge in recent history: the moment Girl with Balloon ‘self-destructed’ at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 5th October 2018. But of course, this wasn’t an act of destruction, it was a moment of creation – a metamorphosis that transformed Banksy’s Girl with Balloon into an entirely new work of art that, in the words of BBC Arts Editor Will Gompetz, “will come to be seen as one of the most significant artworks of the early 21st Century” (Will Gompertz, ‘Will Gompertz on Banksy’s Love is in the Bin’, BBC News , 13 October 2018, online).