Potential Banksy, now in storage, to be displayed at Tokyo City Hall
A piece of street art discovered in January that some attribute to Banksy is to be shown at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building starting next week, Gov. Yuriko Koike said Friday. The announcement was met with skepticism online as some questioned whether Tokyo was now ...
Banksy homage to Paris attack victims stolen from Bataclan theater
A mural by British street artist Banksy on a fire-exit door at Paris' Bataclan theater, where Islamist militants killed 90 people three years ago, has been stolen, the venue said Saturday. The work, one of a series of murals painted last June in the French ...
Banksy-like work found in Chiba, following similar discovery in Tokyo
Graffiti on a seawall in Chiba Prefecture resembling the work of Banksy has sparked speculation over whether it is a piece by the elusive street artist, and it comes about a month after another possible work by the painter and activist was found in ...
Banksy does Tokyo? Officials check if years-old graffiti is work of legendary British street artist
Officials are trying to verify if a drawing of a rat holding an umbrella, spray painted near a monorail station in central Tokyo, is the work of the famous and mysterious British street artist Banksy. "We noticed there is a drawing of a rat spray ...
A new work by enigmatic street artist Banksy has brought visitors flocking to the back of a car garage in Port Talbot, causing quite a stir in the south Wales steel town. The image appeared on Tuesday. Since then the local authority has brought in ...
Banksy posted a video to his website Tuesday implying that the partial shredding of his "Girl With Balloon" at a London auction was supposed to have been complete. The video shows the famously anonymous artist constructing the shredding mechanism inside an ornate frame and pushing ...
Why Banksy's art stunt is economic genius
His shredding trick demonstrates the street artist's talent for exploring the ways in which people value art.
Banksy canvas sells for $1.4 million — before self-destructing
Art prankster Banksy has struck again. A work by the elusive street artist self-destructed in front of startled auction-goers Friday, moments after being sold for £1.04 million ($1.4 million). In an Instagram post Saturday, Banksy claimed the dramatic artistic payoff had been years in the ...
'Banksy Does New York' and throws shade on the art world in the process
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 ...
Geographic profiling may reveal identlty of elusive artist Banksy
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, ...
Pair of Banksy works are vandalized in Sundance film festival's host town
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 ...
