Banksy house sale is back on: Family insist they WILL sell £340,000 house decorated with artist’s ‘Aachoo!’ mural even though it has been valued at £5million Nick Makin denied claims his mother had decided against exchanging contracts for the property in Bristol The family want the art to stay protected, insisting the sale had merely … Read more
It’s a Banksy robbery! Bicycle that appeared as part of graffiti artist’s image of a hula-hooping girl in Nottingham ‘is stolen’ Banksy artwork in Nottingham depicted girl hula-hooping with a bicycle wheel A bike with a tyre missing was chained to a post in front of the piece in October ‘Saddened’ locals say its disappearance … Read more
After a year-long investigation by Claudia Joseph, Simon Trump, Ewan Fletcher, Adam Luck, Jason Buckner and Craig Hibbert, the Mail on Sunday named Banksy as Robin Gunningham. The search began with a photograph taken in Jamaica showing a man in a blue shirt and jeans, with a hint of a smile on his face and a … Read more
Rail union bosses have claimed Banksy’s £7.5million Tube graffiti stunt proves the London Underground ‘is not safe,’ as TfL refuses to share which station the artist targeted along with other details, as it fears copycats will target trains. The renowned street artist boarded a Hammersmith and City Line train dressed in a high-vis jacket, boiler … Read more
A rescue boat funded by street artist Banksy and carrying hundreds of migrants was last night in danger of capsizing in the Mediterranean. In a series of mayday alerts, the MV Louise Michel, which first ran into trouble on Friday, said it couldn’t move because of an overcrowded deck. Italian coastguards yesterday reached the vessel … Read more
A rescue boat funded by street artist Banksy and carrying hundreds of migrants was last night in danger of capsizing in the Mediterranean. In a series of mayday alerts, the MV Louise Michel, which first ran into trouble on Friday, said it couldn’t move because of an overcrowded deck. Italian coastguards yesterday reached the vessel … Read more
Banksy’s coronavirus-inspired artwork created in a Tube train carriage as it went through central London was wiped away by a cleaner who wrote it off as common graffiti and it may have been worth between £1.5million and £7.5million, MailOnline can reveal today. The guerrilla artist, dressed in a high-vis jacket, boiler suit, goggles and face … Read more
Banksy’s latest artwork inside a London Underground train carriage, with messages about the spread of coronavirus, has been removed by Transport for London (TfL). The guerrilla artist, dressed in a high-vis jacket, boiler suit, goggles and face mask, painted a black rat coughing and sneezing green paint across the carriage’s window and walls to encourage people … Read more