Tag: Banksy
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Man Claims The Banksy Shredding Saga Was A FAKE, Despite The Fact That Sotheby’s Confirms The Sale
Unless you’ve been living under a rock this last week, you will have heard the news about the Banksy shredding painting saga. We reported about it HERE and HERE. Lot’s of people have shared their theories about the event. Was Banksy in the crowd? Was Sotheby’s involved in the stunt? Did the shredding mean the…
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A 132 Year Old Girl Escapes Her Picture Frame And Turns Into A Huge Wheatpaste Mural In Tennessee
Artist Julien de Casabianca was recently invited to create a huge wheatpaste mural at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Tennessee alongside an exhibition and workshop. Julien’s seven-story mural features a melancholic girl pulled from William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s 1886 neoclassical painting “Au pied de la falaise” (At the Foot of The Cliff) which is included in the…
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One Man Paints a Massive Illegal Mural in Cairo
Egypt has some of the toughest laws in the world forbidding artistic expression, so when French-Tunisian artist eL Seed decided to paint an enormous mural covering 50 buildings in the heart of Cairo, he had to ensure that the government knew nothing about the project or risk facing serious jail time. eL Seed avoided contacting…
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BREAKING NEWS: New Video Reveals The Moment Banksy Artwork Was Shredded
It’s been all over the internet. As we reported HERE, at a Sotheby’s auction in London on Friday 5 October 2018, Banksy absolutely broke the internet with news that Girl with a Balloon, a work by Banksy created in 2006, had just been sold for a record price of £953,829 ($1.25 million USD). Moments later, an…
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BREAKING NEWS: Sotheby’s ‘Banksy-ed’ As Painting ‘Self-Destructs’ Live At Auction
UPDATE: Banksy’s own video of the stunt has just been released HERE. Was Banksy at the evening sale at Sotheby’s on Friday night? That was the question on everyone’s lips when one of the Bristolian street artist’s paintings mysteriously self-destructed as the contemporary auction drew to a close. Girl with a Balloon (2006) was the…
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Artist Re-Appropriates Classical Paintings With A Satirical Twist Using Hundreds Of Layers Of Stencils
Luke Cornish is an Australian artist creating unique, powerful images from handmade stencils. His rise within the contemporary art world has been meteoric, becoming the first artist to be nominated for the Archibald Prize and the Sulman prize with a portrait created entirely out of stencils. A former blue-collar worker from Canberra, Luke’s apathy and…
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Is This a Pre-Banksy, Banksy? Original Robin Gunningham Album Artwork Goes on Sale
A piece of artwork that could be a pre-Banksy original has gone on sale online. There is constant speculation about the identity of arguably Bristol’s most famous citizen – the innumerable theories range from members of Massive Attack and Gorillaz to a parking attendant at ‘Dismaland’. In July 2008 the Mail on Sunday believed they…
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Urban Floral Cross-Stitch Street Installations by Raquel Rodrigo
Raquel Rodrigo is a set designer and artist who brings the macro details of cross-stitch embroidery to urban landscapes on the building facades around Madrid. She prepares her colorful installations beforehand with enlarged cross-stitch techniques using thick string wrapped on wire mesh before each is unrolled and affixed to a surface. Here are some of…
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French Street Artist Turns Pedestrian Crossings Into Art
OakOak is at it again! He is a master of integrating his art into everyday surroundings, giving various objects new, different meanings. This time, the French street artist is using the white strips of pedestrian crossing as his canvas. What's your favorite? Scroll down to see them for yourself! [zombify_post]