A Banksy that has spent most of its time wrapped in a blanket under its owner’s spare bed is to go on display for the first time in a decade. Leopard and Barcode was offered to the organisers of The Art of Banksy after the show, which opens on 21 October in Salford’s MediaCityUK, was announced. Banksy originally created it on a house near Bristol in 1999 or 2000 and it was saved by a...
Banksy says he has made T-shirts to “mark the occasion” of the trial of four people accused of pulling down the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol. Three defendants are due to go on trial on Monday charged with criminal damage after the 17th Century slave trader’s statue was torn down in June 2020. Banksy revealed the design of the shirts in an Instagram post on Friday evening...
A partially shredded Banksy painting has sold for more than £18.5m at auction, a record for the street artist. Love is in the Bin fetched £18,582,000 at Sotheby’s in London, selling for vastly more than its £4m-£6m guide price. The artwork was the remains of the anonymous artist’s live destruction of his piece Girl with Balloon at the same auction house in a piece of performance art, which sold...