Robbo’s 1985 piece beneath a bridge across Regent’s Canal in Camden was the oldest surviving graffiti in London. Secured inside a wooden crate and locked in a warehouse is a painting that could cement this city’s reputation as a showcase for avant-garde art. Or as a wasteland waiting to be picked apart.
King Robbo painted the wall beneath a bridge over Regent’s canal in 1985 Britain’s most notorious graffiti artist may be accustomed to art world adulation but Banksy’s latest work has landed him in an old fashioned street fight. The aerosol painter from Bristol stands accused of disrespecting a graffiti legend by modernising a 24-year-old work [...]
Before and after pictures of a Banksy artwork in Stoke Newington, London. Council officials have painted over a Banksy graffito sketch from which a reworked version was derived as the cover artwork for the 2003 single Crazy Beat by the band Blur. The artwork – a cartoon of the royal family waving from a balcony [...]
One of Banksy’s best-loved Bristol murals has been targeted by vandals as fans continue to arrive in their droves for his exhibition just up the road. The Park Street image shows a naked man hanging out of a window as a suspicious husband peers out of the window into the distance as his scantily-clad wife [...]
On June 13 2009, the Banksy UK Summer show opened at Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, featuring more than 100 works of art, including animatronics and installations; it is his largest exhibition yet, featuring 78 new works. Reaction to the show has been positive, with expectations that large numbers of visitors will visit Bristol [...]
A group of volunteers clearing graffiti from the walls and bus stops in their home town have inadvertently painted over a modern masterpiece – and cost its owner £5,000. The work, attributed to street artist Banksy, depicted Paddington Bear with the caption “Migration is not a crime” and was painted on to a wall owned [...]
Banksy – arncha sick of him? The first few times I saw graffiti by the mystery man from Bristol, I was struck by his bitter wit and sure sense of design and scale. But unlike, say, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Banksy’s art didn’t make the transition from public space to art gallery easily. A one-line visual joke [...]