I just read an interesting article on the BBC about house selling in the current financial climate and novel ideas to get your home sold. One House owner added $40k to the value of their property due to the 25ft mural of Banksy Art on the side of their five-bedroomed home in Bristol, Devon. However the homeowners soon became disturbed to hear that prospective buyers planned to have the mural removed as soon as the sale went through and so they looked to a local art gallery to sell the Banksy... Read Full Story
I just found a fantastic article for fans of Banksy Graffiti on Blek Le Rat, the French Artist who Banksy cited as being one of his biggest influences. Blek Le Rat is such an influence on Banksy Art , that the anonymous artist was quoted as saying “Every time I think I’ve painted something slightly original, I find out that Blek le Rat has done it as well. Only twenty years earlier.” Better yet, the French Artist is displaying new works which includes a piece called “The Invisible Man”, a... Read Full Story
image via bbc.co.uk Two years ago, Banksy 's prints of Kate Moss sold for £50,000 at a Sotheby's modern art auction. Banksy, who once modified 500 copies of Paris Hilton's album Paris and put them back on record store shelves, is likely the most popular urban artist of today. On February 24, the piece is expected to sell for even more--between £100,000 and £150,000--at Bonhams , despite the economic downturn that has sunk prices throughout the art world. Gareth Williams, the head of Bonhams... Read Full Story
Two more giant Banksy Murals are appearing tonight in New York. The one on the corner of Houston and Macdougal is an advertisement for a new exhibition of Banksy Art . Banksy’s own website has a link for the new show which will be in New York City at “89 Seventh Avenue South (Between West 4th and Bleeker). Open 10am - 12pm daily until October 31st (also viewable at night).” Accompanying the advertisement are four Youtube clips of animatronics, one of a rabbit applying cosmetics, two “fish... Read Full Story
A Farmer in Leeds (North England) has been living with a piece of Banksy Art on his walls since 2003 and was completely unaware of the Artist of the worth of the graffiti. The piece, a television being thrown from a window, has been seen on countless Banksy Posters and prints and also appears on a wall in Shoreditch (London). Banksy recreated his stencil on the Farmers wall for a photoshoot with the band Blur (who he also collaborated with on singles and an album cover) and since then, the... Read Full Story
Banksy has recently reacted to London’s Westminster Council and its attempts to remove the classic Banksy Graffiti piece “One nation under CCTV”. The Council believes the artwork should be removed on the grounds that it’s an unlicensed commercial. This in turn has produced a brilliant quote from Banksy: “I was offended when Westminster said my painting was an advertisement. Advertising makes people feel inadequate and worthless. Graffiti doesn’t do that. Graffiti doesn’t emotionally... Read Full Story
Auction house, Cornette de Saint-Cyr has organized an auction of exceptional works from the world of street art and graffiti at La Cigalle, in Paris. The collection includes an extensive range of over 200 artists and 140 pieces of artworks, documenting the history of graffiti and street art from 1970 to present. The collection includes both the graffiti scene of the U.S. as the French scene, with artists such as legendary Seen, Taki 183, Basquiat, Keith Harring, Futura 2000, Blek le Rat... Read Full Story
When Talia Findlay’s Father bought her a painting for her birthday, it cost him the princely sum of $500 and since then its worth has rocketed to a potential $120K - not a bad return! The painting was a piece of Banksy Art (Monkey Detonator) and when Talia’s Father purchased it he had no idea of its worth or how much it would fetch eight years later. The painting was featured in the third exhibition by Banksy, long before the anonymous artist rose to his current heights of fame - way before... Read Full Story
After speculation that a photographer had caught the elusive Banksy on camera, it turns out that the picture of the hooded man spotted overseeing the latest Banksy Graffiti Mural in New York on Wednesday, was not the secretive artist. This is good to know as given he is anonymous - standing around under a giant rat and giving directions to the painters would not be the best way to preserve anonymity and Banksy has always struck me as being a shrewd man! The photograph which showed a hooded... Read Full Story
Hello, readers! It's morning, I'm eating my meagre breakfast and drinking my favorite caffeine beverage. I've just finished watching Studio RareKwai's brilliant documentary on Japanese graffiti, RackGaki . For the third time this week. I do love it a lot, and love is the right word this time, but I've noticed that my toddler loves it even more. Each morning since Monday he has bought the book to me, thrust it in my hand and said "watch" in a slightly aggressive manner. I have to say I'm... Read Full Story
