An unguarded moment in an interview has renewed speculation over one of contemporary art's great mysteries: Could elusive graffiti activist Banksy be Robert Del Naja of the trip-hop band Massive Attack? Goldie, a well-known DJ who was a friend and competitor of Del Naja as ...
Who is Banksy? The U.K.'s best-known-yet-unknown street artist/conceptual prankster was in the news again this month after researchers at Queen Mary University of London analyzed maps of Banksy's wall works in London and Bristol to pinpoint a possible suspect. Excited headlines shouted as though ...
The elusive street artist Banksy may have been unmasked by mathematics. Scientists have applied a type of modeling used to track down criminals and map disease outbreaks to identify the graffiti artist, whose real name has never been confirmed. The technique, known as geographic profiling, is ...
Neighbors in New Orleans foiled what police say was an attempt to steal a chunk of cinder block wall bearing a painting created by the world-renowned graffiti artist Banksy. The building's owner called police Friday evening, saying someone was attempting to cut out the painting, ...
Two paintings by the mysterious British graffiti artist Banksy were the targets of vandalism on New Year's Eve, possibly ruining one of the works in the town that hosts the Sundance Film Festival. On Thursday, brown spray paint covered a Park City mural that depicted ...
More than two years after the triple reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, hundreds of thousands of residents of the Tohoku region of northeastern Honshu remain displaced, the power station teeters on the brink of further disaster and large swaths ...
