Tag: Banksy
When an image of a fresh Banksy appeared in late September and was confirmed on his website with the title “Better Out Than In,” it was widely reported that the piece was done in Los Angeles, where it was assumed that he was getting ready to unveil a new exhibit. But with the appearance of […]
Here’s a new Banky stencil of a vomiting vandal that was confirmed by his official website and reportedly done in Los Angeles. The flowers sprouting up from a crack in the wall have been incorporated into the design. Cute. UPDATE: Better Out Than In has nothing to do with LA. According to Nuart Festival’s Facebook […]
It didn’t take long for graffiti to spread across the pond. The underground art form that was birthed in the train yards and streets of NYC in the late 1960s and flourished in the early 1980s quickly made its way to London. “Everything that takes off in New York, comes here about a year or […]
Stop by Gowanus’s Serett Metal Works in the next few days and you may catch a glimpse of a Banksy. Not because the artist painted an original work on the building, but because it’s the temporary home of a piece hacked out of a Los Angeles wall, taken, and sold by the shady Hamptons gallery owner Stephan […]
England’s seaside resort The Grosvenor has come up with a fantastic way to protect their prized Banksy mural, estimated to be worth $775,000. No one is going to chisel it out of the wall or haul it off for sale or drill through it or tag it. No one is going to see it either: The decorating team has […]
In December, Houston-born and worldwide recognized graffiti writer NEKST passed away. The prolific art-bomber left him mark in countless cities and eventually aligned with LA’s mighty MSK crew. After his death, NEKST tributes began popping on streets from Houston to New York City and beyond. And now he has been immortalized online by one of […]
Totally shocking, breaking Banksy news!!! If you’ve become accustomed to seeing the very famous street artist’s stencils being boarded up, made a fuss about and chiseled out of the walls of Detroit and Palestine (PALESTINE for fuck’s sake!) and then sold off at an auction, all shady-like… It happened again. This time to that hyped one Banksy did recently to […]
Last month, a 25-year-old South East London man charged on credit two Banksy prints, Wrong War and a signed edition of No Ball Games, worth £12,990 (about $20,000 USD), from an Essex art dealer. Two weeks after the the work was shipped to the buyer, bank letters informed the dealer that payments made on the credit cards, one […]
