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Boris and Banksy – a government graffiti artist?

23rd July 20205th August 2020Poppy Atkinson Gibson

Image description: Graffiti of a girl with a heart shaped balloon, from Berlin. Banksy’s status as a street artist will always divide audiences. The crux of the matter is that, on the one hand, graffiti is vandalism and illegal; it dirties up the clean streets and makes the whole place look untidy. That is Brendan […]

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The curious case of auto-destructive art

13th January 201913th January 2019Pratibha Rai

One of the most extraordinary events in the art world in 2018 was the shredding of renowned street artist Banksy’s work Girl with a Balloon (2006).  The surreal event unravelled at a Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Auction in October 2018. Bids for the famous print escalated from £100,000 to £400,000, until the final bid was offered […]

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