Banksy Port Talbot Mural Sells To Dealer For Six Figures

Banksy Port Talbot Mural Sells To Dealer For Six Figures

A Banksy mural, which appeared on the side of a garage in Port Talbot in December, has been sold to a private collector for a “six-figure sum”. Season’s Greetings was purchased by the Essex gallery owner John Brandler from steelworker Ian Lewis, who...
McJesus Sculpture Sparks Protest At Haifa Museum

McJesus Sculpture Sparks Protest At Haifa Museum

Several hundred fundamentalist Christians have staged a protest outside the Haifa Museum of Art in Israel demanding the removal of ‘McJesus’ a sculpture of a crucified Ronald McDonald by Finnish artist Jani Leinonen. “When I heard that that there...
Is Pyotr Pavlensky Just An Attention Seeking Muppet

Is Pyotr Pavlensky Just An Attention Seeking Muppet

In the aftermath of sentencing the exiled Russian artist Petr (AKA Pyotr) Pavlensky on Thursday, I ask myself why is he doing this? Is it for art? Or should we categorise him as an attention-seeking spoilt brat? Pavlensky was on trial for setting fire to the facade of...