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 that [...]

There’s one Banksy mural that stands out when you visit Bristol, home town of the guerrilla artist who has become an art-world phenomenon. The title of the piece is The Mild Mild West and it depicts a huge, smiling teddy bear with a Molotov cocktail in his paw, facing three policemen holding up riot shields.
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Eight years ago a hard-up student spent the last £300 of his student loan on a piece of art. Next week it will be displayed in a commercial art gallery with a price tag of £150,000. The work in question, Riot Green, is one of more than 60 pieces by Banksy to go on show [...]