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New Banksy Work Shows Man Who Resembles Oscar Wilde Scaling Down a Wall at the Old Reading Prison

Lots to digest in the new Banksy work that showed up on the side of a brick facade of Reading Prison last night. According to the BBC, "The picture shows a prisoner - possibly resembling famous inmat March 01, 2021

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Banksy Ends 2020 With a COVID Message in Bristol, England

It's been a long and winding year, and the world's most famour artist has been busy by his standards with a few "pieces" around the UK as even he has had to shelter-in-place. But Banksy is back in wh December 10, 2020

Street Art

Banksy Adds a Hula-Hooping Girl to the Streets of Nottingham, UK

We woke up this morning with confirmation of news about Banksy and his new work spied on the streets of Nottingham, England. Indeed, the piece is a very clever use of the typical street scene. The el October 15, 2020

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Banksy Funds "Louise Michel" Boat to Rescue Refugees in Mediterranean Sea

In a world where “thumbs up” indicates support, the reliable adage to “put your money where your mouth is” carries measurable weight. It asks for more than “walk the walk”, and  in m August 27, 2020

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Banksy Donates "Mediterranean sea view 2017” To Raise Funds for Children’s Hospital and Stroke Unit

Even in one of the strangest years on record,Banksy still finds a way to stand out. Pandemics don’t stop the elusive superstar artist, who’s been busy, most recently, taking over the London Under  ; July 27, 2020

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Banksy Returns with New Coronavirus Message on the London Underground and Channels Chumbawamba

Because it seems like some people don't even care about the irrefutable facts brought upon us by experts who have spent their entire lifetimes studying infectious diseases and their spread, let's get July 14, 2020

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6 Arrested in the Banksy Bataclan Mural Theft in France

We have covered art heists on this site before with an almost begrudgingly awed impression: stealing art from a musuem, a van Gogh perhaps, just has a bit of a cinematic storyline to it. But in the c June 29, 2020

Sculpture

Banksy Offers Idea on Now Destroyed Edward Colston Statue in Bristol

Banksy is the master at packing powerful, poetic prose in his messaging. He is a rebel, for sure, and the Robin Hood of street artists was especially on point on his IG account earlier this week in s June 10, 2020

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Banksy's New Work Appears in Southampton General Hospital, UK (with updates)

It’s a rush of excitement, the delightful surprise of a new Banksy post on Instagram. Granted, there are teases out in the world that lead to speculation of a Banksy project and we suspiciously ant May 06, 2020

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When Banksy Practices Social Distancing and Works From Home

Most of us are working from home, thinking of ways to remain engage and creative, or just finding new—and old—ways to kill some time. Some of are reading, listening to podcasts, and for the ambit April 15, 2020

Film

Jux Saturday School: If You Haven't Seen Banksy's "Exit Through the Gift Shop," Maybe Now Is a Good Time

It seems almost impossible to us that Banksy's Academy Award nominated film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, is a decade old now. At the time it came out it felt like a line in the sand for the entire st March 16, 2020

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Banksy is Seeing Red in Bristol

Cupid arrived early on Valentine's Eve at Barton Hill in Bristol, rousing a new mural splashed on the facade of a residential home on the corner of Marsh Lane and Avondale Road. The aesthetic looked February 13, 2020
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