The third rumored Banksy is English artist Robert Del Naja aka 3D, the frontman for the band Massive Attack. He was a graffiti artist himself in the ‘80s, and is a confirmed personal friend of Banksy. May he actually be Banksy himself? Perhaps, especially because the appearance of some of...
Ahead of his latest creation, Banksy's last confirmed work was a stop sign in Peckham, south London, with three military drones stuck across it, and was shared just before Christmas. However, that work was removed less than an hour after it was confirmed to be genuine on the artist's so...
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Interest has continued to grow in finding the true identity of the artist, especially in 2023, when a 2003 interview with a BBC reporter resurfaced. Although Banksy's face was not revealed in the video, the reporter asked him if his real name was "Robert Banks," and the artist replied b...
MercurialBritishartist Banksy has unveiled a new work in support of Black Lives Matter andGeorge Floyd. Banksy posted the new piece on Instagram, in which he highlights the portrait of a faceless black man and a candle. The full painting shows that the candle has set the American flag on fi...
Twitter Google Share on Facebook Banksy Wikipedia Banksy,pseud. of an English graffiti artist, c.1974–, probably b. Bristol. He painted on walls, bridges, and the like in Bristol and London in the 1990s before he began to use (c.2000) stencils and stencils combined with free-hand work...
“We have not experienced this situation in the past, where a painting is spontaneously shredded upon achieving a record for the artist.” Whether the final bid will stand remains for the time being undecided. Why not skip the middle man to prove what they already knew, and...
Pest Control, the tongue-in-cheek-titled organization set up by the artist to authenticate the real Banksy artwork, also protects him from prying outsiders. Hiding behind a paper bag, or, more commonly, e-mail, Banksy relentlessly controls his own narrative. His last face-to-face interview to...
'Game Changer,' which the enigmatic street artist donated to the University Hospital Southampton (UHS) in May of 2020 during the first wave of the pandemic, depicts a young child playing with a toy Red Cross nurse wearing a cape and face mask. In a nearby basket, figurines of Batman and ...
Banksy, the UK’s best-known street artist, might be getting too famous for the good of his creations. Their appearance provokes some odd reactions. Of the nine animal paintings he made across London over consecutive days in the past weeks, one — a howling wolf, painted on an old satelli...