Banksy Archives

Massive Street Art Exhibition Announced By Saatchi Gallery

One of the largest and most comprehensive ‘Street Art’ exhibitions will open this February at the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea.

Banksy Slams Guess Brand For Appropriating Flower Thrower IP

The elusive ‘Street Artist’ Banksy has lashed out at the American clothing retailer Guess on Instagram for stealing his well-known ‘Flower Thrower’ painting to sell jeans and hoodies in retail shops.

Banksy Goes To Ukraine To Create His Latest Political Works

Seven striking new works by the elusive Street Artist Banksy have appeared on bombed-out buildings in Ukraine.

Banksy Bataclan Sad Girl Eight Convicted Of Art Theft

Eight men have been convicted of stealing A Banksy artwork depicting a weeping woman that was taken from the Bataclan concert hall in Paris.

Banksy Spraycation Mural Sells For $2m – John Sainsbury Art Patron Dies – DCMS £30m Emergency Support For Culture

Banksy Spraycation Mural Sells Privately – John Sainsbury Art Patron Dies – DCMS £30m Emergency Support For Culture

NFT Phishing Scam $2.2m Lost – Banksy Vandal Given Prison Sentence – Protected Status Granted For £1500 Caravaggio

Banksy Pledges Mural To Save Reading Gaol From Developers – Largest Vermeer Retrospective Announced By Rijksmuseum – Monumental Stonehenge Exhibition For British Museum

Banksy Shred Art Sells For Record £16m At Sotheby’s

A neo-dadaist painting by Banksy, which shredded itself at a Sotheby’s auction has sold for a record £16 million.

Mr Brainwash Loves London But Is It Mutual? – Conversation With Oliver Malin

Mr Brainwash (Thierry Guetta) a cross between a Beaver and John Belushi in conversation with Oliver Malin ahead of his London show.

Fake Banksy NFT Artwork Sold For $350k Was A Hack

Banksy has had his website hacked, resulting in the sale of a fake $336,000 NFT to an unsuspecting collector.

Banksy Spraycation – East Coast Summer 2021 – How To Find Them

Banksy Spraycation Guide. How To Find Them in Great Yarmouth, Gorleston and Cromer, Norfolk, Lowestoft and Oulton Broad in Suffolk

Banksy Game Changer Raises £16.8m For NHS Charities

Banksy ‘Game Changer’ painting Raises £16.8m For NHS Charities At Christie’s in London

Banksy Game Changer Mural Donated To The NHS Auctioned

A mural by the elusive Street Artist Banksy titled ‘Game Changer’ will go under the auction hammer at Christie’s

Banksy Paints Escaping Oscar Wilde Mural For LGBTQ+ History Month

Banksy has confirmed that he was behind an artwork that appeared on a wall at HM Reading Prison earlier in the week.

Banksy Hula Hoop Girl Removed And Sold From Nottingham Wall

The Banksy mural known as ‘Hula-hoop Girl’ that appeared on a residential street in Nottingham last October has been hacked from the wall.

Is Banksy William Hogarth’s Successor? – Edward Lucie-Smith

The appearance of a new Banksy graffito in Bristol more or less confirms his position as the genuine top dog in the current British art scene. His only possible rival is Hockney, now living in comfortable exile in France. Bacon and Freud are dead – in any case one of them was as much Irish […]

Aachoo! New Banksy COVID Mural Unveiled In Bristol

A new mural by the elusive graffiti artist Banksy has appeared on a house in Bristol. It depicts an elderly woman coughing her false teeth out

60% UK Museums Facing Permanent Closure – Banksy vs The Bicycle Thief – Zaha Hadid Estate Settled

Museums, galleries and historic houses across the UK are facing a crisis due to the impact of Covid-19, with six in ten (60%) surveyed worried about their survival.

Banksy’s Show Me The Monet Sells For £7.6m At Sotheby’s

Banksy Launches Full Scale Refugee Rescue Ship

The elusive ‘Street Artist’ Banksy has put his money where his mouth is by funding a rescue boat to help save refugees in dangerous situations in the Mediterranean.

Banksy: Stolen Bataclan Mural Found In Italy – Colston Statue Update

Banksy, Bristol’s international artist/influencer has suggested a plan which should appeal to both critics of the sudden removal and dumping of the statue of slave-trader Edward Colston and the protesters.

Banksy Unveils New Painting Honouring George Floyd’s Memory

The elusive Street Artist Banksy has unveiled a new artwork inspired by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Banksy A Superhero’s Gift To Southampton General Hospital – Edward Lucie-Smith

Banksy has just lent a picture to the Southampton General Hospital. It will remain of view in a foyer near their emergency department on the third floor until the autumn but will then go to auction to raise funds for the National Health Service. Very generous of him.

Banksy: My Wife Hates It When I Work From Home

A brand new installation by Banksy has appeared on his Instagram account. Aptly christened, ‘Rats, My Wife Hates It When I Work From Home’.

Banksy Valentine Mural Confirmed On Instagram

A new artwork that appeared on the side of a house in Bristol yesterday has been confirmed as the work of the elusive street artist Banksy. The Banksy Valentine mural features a stencil-artwork of a girl firing a slingshot of red flowers made with spray-painted ivy. Banksy published picture of the work on his Instagram page at midnight on Valentine’s Day.

Banksy: Devolved Parliament Chimp Painting Sells For £9.9m

The largest painting on canvas by the elusive street artist Banksy depicting the House of Commons populated with chimpanzees has sold

Banksy Opens Croydon Pop Up Shop

A shop by the Street Artist Banksy has appeared overnight at an empty retail premises in Croydon.

Banksy’s Dover Brexit Mural Likely To Be Sold At Auction

A popular Brexit mural, in the English port of Dover by the elusive Street Artist Banksy has been covered over by scaffolding and netting with white paint blocking out the artwork. The mural depicts a star being chiselled from the EU flag. It appeared near the Dover ferry terminal in May 2017 at the height […]

Keith Haring: A Sign Of The Times – Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz

The highly anticipated first UK exhibition of Keith Haring’s work has opened at Tate Liverpool. It is vast, covering most aspects of his work and career. This was my first experience seeing so many pieces by this seminal figure from the 1980s,’ in the flesh, so I was curious to learn more about the man.