Council wants Banksy mural removed

A council wants to remove a Banksy work from a wall in Westminster. It is of course graffiti by definition, good graffiti that may even be high art.The argument that it should be left there forever in a way goes for...

Banksy paints Katrina tributes in New Orleans

Banksy has repotedly hit New Orleans with a series of a dozen murals in response to the state of the Katrina clean up and anti-graffiti campaigner the Grey Ghost. There is some speculation as to if these were...

Daily Mail Claims to Unmask Banksy

The Mail on Sunday claims to have unmasked global guerilla graffitti artist Banksy, though their story is fraught with unanswered questions. The most fascinating part of this story (or, rather, the story around the...

London council paints over street artist Bansky's graffiti murals - worth mil...

A piece of Banksy's work was painted over by London council just a little while after it was first displayed, saying it was worth worthless graffiti. Some of Banksy's previous works have fetched up to a million...

Banksy Is The World's Most Wanted Graffiti Artist

You can see graffiti in every country in the world. It often defaces walls, poles, trains and the fronts and sides of buildings. Graffiti is considered undesirable vandalism to its victims who spend time and money to...

The Paradox of Corporate 'Street Art'

I've seen this stencilled image pasted up around Vancouver and I was a bit skeptical about its tongue-in-check Vespa-headed hipster vibe. Turns out, I had reason to be. It's a street art campaign by Vespa. Yeah, no...

Banksy Organizes 'Cans Festival' in London

Bansky is the artist who just keeps on giving. You've got to love this guy. And I love that The Cans Festival is set up to be, essentially, an anti-Cannes, stencil-only, street art festival that is collaborative,...

The Cans Festival- London 3/4/5/ May 2008

Stencil Art Battle The Leake Street railway tunnel near Waterloo St. Features works  from Banksy and 40 of the world's best graffiti artists from 15 country. Thousands have visited this unusual art...

Basquiat and Banksy to cover auction in graffiti

"Daubing the subways of New York in the 1980s with provocative images that shocked the establishment was how it all started. Two decades later, Jean-Michel Basquiat,  Keith Haring and David Salle are being...

BANKSY SUMS UP MODERN BRITAIN WITH ICONIC MURAL: 'ONE NATION UNDER CCTV'

"Folk hero Banksy has pulled off an audacious stunt to produce what is believed to be his biggest work yet in central London and again succeeds to put two fingers up to the authorities. His latest mural sums up...

Graffiti artist Banksy pulls off grandest stunt to date - despite being watch...

England's most famous graffiti artist has pulled off yet another fantastic stunt - right under the noses of the CCTV cameras. This latest work is believed to be his biggest yet and it's right in the middle of central...

New Banksy Books

Banksy's Bristol Home Sweet Home BOOK Launchthe unofficial guide by Steve Wright 

Banksy's Morons sells at auction

"A screenprint by Banksy that pokes fun at the art world has sold at auction in London. Moron's reached £5,250, about £1,000 more than its...

Banksy 'backs ban on plastic bags'

Looks like the plastic bag has had its day...."Banksy, the secretive guerrilla artist, appears to have joined the growing campaign to ban plastic bags.  The graffiti artist is thought to have struck again...

Banksy Banks Big Bucks at Street Art Auction

Banksy knows what's up. Rarely shows in galleries. Mocks Christmas consumerism in Bethlehem. Has people buying sections of wall that he's tagged. And now he's selling prints for thousands of pounds. Good...

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