A renegade headhunter called The Decapitator is roaming the streets of London turning luxury billboards - such as this one for Moet et Chandon - into blood-spattered stump-y versions of their former selves…

The action recalls some of Banksy’s earlier work, and also Splasher, the New York agit prop artist who grew notorious last Summer with his attacks on art works. The aim of The Splasher (as outlined in The Splasher Manifesto) was to challenge innovation in street art which The Splasher accused of being “rotten and rigidified into methods of commodification.”

We have yet to see whether these attacks will go further…

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