This mural at London Zoo was the ninth animal artwork in Banksy’s latest series.
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The murals have captured the public imagination because they play with something beyond the world of pop art – our love, fear and fascination with animals.
The new Banksy work on Hornsey Road in the Finsbury Park area of London.
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Many of those who celebrate Banksy hold contradictory positions on precisely the themes his works seem to address.
Banksy has a team of lawyers and art dealers who make sure that the Banksy name is only ever associated with authentic Banksys.
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The scale of his work and the control he has over his brand suggests that Banksy is not just one man anymore.
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Glasgow welcomes the world’s most famous graffiti artist, drawn to the city by the much-loved ‘Coneheid’ Duke of Wellington statue outside his exhibition.
Tagging, once considered vandalism, has gained cachet and economic value in the art world.
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In the last decade, some graffiti writers have moved from outlaw taggers to sought-after artists.
Elena Ferrante chooses to write under a pseudonym to conceal her identity.
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Fans often prefer to remain in the dark about the identity of their favourite authors and artists
A display from The Art of Banksy: Without Limits exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bangkok. Banksy’s Pest Control website states: “Banksy has NOTHING to do with any of the current or recent exhibitions and they are nothing like a genuine Banksy show.”
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The artist who once declared “copyright is for losers” finds himself locked in a legal battle over use of his artwork.
Beautiful but deadly: winter inUkraine.
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Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.
One of Banksy’s murals in Borodyanka.
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Banksy has unveiled six new works in Ukraine, created on the walls of bombed buildings.
Residents in Kabul, Afghanistan walk past artists from the ArtLords organization as they paint a mural of journalists who were killed in 2018.
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Afghanistan’s Artlords are using art on blast walls to advocate for social change and to stand in contrast to the country’s war lords, drug lords and corruption.
Hirst Lord of the Treasury.
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Make 10,000 sheets of coloured dots and give them each a corresponding NFT, and what do you have?
The Banksy print that was burnt.
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A blockchain company has bought a piece of Banksy artwork worth US$95,000 and burnt it.
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How Banksy’s glib response to a trademark challenge backfired and lost him a two-year legal battle.
‘Super Nurse!’ painted as an ‘ode’ to all healthcare professionals around the world.
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Street artists offer us momentary respite from the psychological weight of the global crisis.
Banksy’s Valentime’s Day mural was defaced with pink spray paint soon after it appeared.
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The defacing of a new Banksy mural in Bristol has raised some interesting legal questions.
Banksy’s merchandise “shop” in Croydon, London.
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Forced into selling his own merchandise to stop others doing the same, the artist could end up facing other similar challenges because he trademarks rather than copyrights his artworks.
Can street art out of context still tell the same story?
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As the Port Talbot Banksy is moved to a new street art museum, the very reason it was created is being ignored.
A visitor enjoys the art of Banksy exhbition at the Mudec Museum in Milan.
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Banksy’s legal team has won an action to stop unauthorised products featuring his work alongside an Italian museum exhibition.
‘Vhils’, a Portuguese street artist, chisels an endangered orangutan onto a wall in the city of Medan, Indonesia.
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Banksy’s ‘boy in falling snow/pollution’ is part of a worldwide movement of artistic activism against environmental problems and climate change.
The Port Talbot Banksy.
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Unsolicited artwork by the world famous artist can cause big problems for private building owners.