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Banksy

  • Friday, 20 June, 2025
    London club claims Banksy street art unlawfully removed to America

    Work was offered for sale in Colorado, lawsuit claims

    Banksy artwork in Bethnal Green
  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    House & Home
    Paint by house numbers: when your home becomes an artist’s canvas

    A clutch of curators and communities, developers and individuals are reasserting the value of turning homes into artworks

    A residential street with brick houses and trees features a modern apartment block with a bold geometric mural in pink, blue, and orange on its side wall
  • Thursday, 20 February, 2025
    The Art Market
    The Banksy market peaked — but there’s a reason his prices are still riding high

    He’s the ultimate outsider-insider artist, balancing rebellion with celebrity owners — even if not everyone is a fan

    A couple dance on a beach shielded by a butler holding an umbrella while two people in hazmat suits behind wrestle with a barrel of toxic waste. A ship is seen sinking in the distance.
  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    Person in the News
    Banksy, the guerrilla street artist loved by the market

    He continues to use his interventions around the world to needle establishment norms

    Illustration of Banksy as a person in a hoodie with their face in shadow spraying a graffiti picture of a gorilla on a wall
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    The Art Market
    Sotheby’s and Christie’s cut jobs in weak art market

    Hong Kong sales disappoint; Banksy print from liquidated charity comes to Sworders; London and Newcastle galleries swap spaces

    Two birds on a wooden fence with a house in the background
  • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
    The Art Market
    Swiss customs descend on Liste art fair’s VIP opening

    Roving We Buy Gold show comes to two New York galleries; Paul Smith offers Banksy at Bonhams for £1.8mn

  • Sunday, 26 March, 2023
    EU immigration
    Italy seizes Banksy-funded rescue ship as migrant crossings surge

    Activists say MV Louise Michel was detained after delivering 180 rescued people to Lampedusa

    The MV Louise Michel off the coast of Malta
  • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
    The Art Market
    Few galleries selling NFTs, despite the hype

    New business offers shares in Warhol; Venice hosts fundraiser for Ukraine; Robbie Williams turns to art

  • Thursday, 20 January, 2022
    Collecting
    Robbie Williams to sell trio of Banksy works

    Sotheby’s schtum about possible IPO; Gagosian opens in Gstaad; consolidation in art-tech

  • Friday, 30 April, 2021
    HTSIThe Hope Issue
    Adam Curtis: my hope manifesto

    The acclaimed documentary filmmaker discusses optimism in a pessimistic age, reasons to be cheerful and his own wishes for the future

  • Friday, 1 May, 2020
    UK Finance
    UK Finance chief lets cat out of bag in video conference call

    Unwitting homage to James Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld

  • Thursday, 17 October, 2019
    News in-depthFT Alphaville
    Banksy banks on HODLers

    And inadvertently promotes the exact opposite of instant frictionless settlement in consumer culture. Hero or villain?

  • Thursday, 3 October, 2019
    UK arts
    Banksy painting of chimps in the Commons sells for record £8.5m

    ‘Devolved Parliament’ has been revised slightly from the street artist’s 2009 original

    PICTURE SUPPLIED BY SOTHEBY'S PRESS OFFICE FOR USE SOLELY IN RELATION TO THE AUCTION OF THE WORK PICTURED AT SOTHEBY'S Banksy Devolved Parliament, 2009 Oil on canvas 267 x 446 cm Estimate: £1,500,000-2,000,000
  • Friday, 13 September, 2019
    UK arts
    Banksy’s ‘Devolved Parliament’ to be auctioned

    Caustic comment on British politics expected to fetch £1.5m-£2m

    Banksy Devolved Parliament, 2009 Oil on canvas 267 x 446 cm Estimate: £1,500,000-2,000,000. Photographed in the Sotheby's warehouse in East London.
  • Friday, 12 October, 2018
    Life & Arts
    Banksy, trust and the art market — the inside story

    Has the street artist’s most audacious prank shredded the credibility of the art market?

  • Sunday, 7 October, 2018
    Life & Arts
    Banksy leaves credibility of art market in shreds

    Stunt or performance art, fate of painting risks reinforcing suspicions over auctions

    Screengrab from a video posted on Banky's instagram account showing the moment when the street artist's artwork, Girl With Balloon shredded itself after being sold for more than £1 million at a Sotheby's auction on 5th October 2018
  • Friday, 5 October, 2018
    Life & Arts
    Banksy painting ‘self-destructs’ on podium in auction prank

    Activist street artist’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ sells for £1m at Sotheby’s — then gets shredded

    Handout photo issued by Sotheby's of Banksy's artwork, Girl With Balloon which shredded itself after being sold for more than £1 million at auction. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Saturday October 6, 2018. The auction house was forced to admit it got ÒBanksy-edÓ after the canvas suddenly passed through a shredder installed in the frame. See PA story ARTS Banksy. Photo credit should read: Sotheby's/PA Wire
									
									NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.
  • Friday, 15 December, 2017
    FT Magazine
    Banksy goes to Bethlehem

    The famously anonymous artist is making his presence felt in the West Bank city. He tells Jan Dalley what he believes his art might achieve

  • Friday, 3 March, 2017
    World
    Banksy opens hotel in Bethlehem overlooking Israeli security wall

    British graffiti artist describes guesthouse as having worst view of any hotel in the world

    An Israeli security watch tower is seen from one of the rooms of the "The Walled Off Hotel" in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Friday, March 3, 2017. The owner of a guest house packed with the elusive artist Banksy's work has opened the doors of his West Bank establishments to media, showcasing its unique "worst view in the world." The nine-room hotel named "The Walled Off Hotel" will officially open on March 11. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
  • Tuesday, 9 February, 2016
    Life & Arts
    Qatari cash for Banksy-backer Steve Lazarides’s art gallery

    Founder plans to use the money to move to Mayfair

  • Monday, 25 January, 2016
    World
    Banksy’s Les Miserable
  • Thursday, 17 December, 2015
    World
    Banksy in Bethlehem
  • Friday, 21 August, 2015
    FT AlphavilleMichael Hunter
    Opening Quote: Beware China’s bemused markets
  • Thursday, 20 August, 2015
    UK economy
    Banksy turns disused Weston lido into anarchic ‘Dismaland’ show

    Graffiti artist creates a mischievous version of Disneyland theme park

    Banksy's Dismaland preview...A Cinderella piece by Banksy during the press view for the artistís biggest show to date, entitled 'Dismaland', at Tropicana in Western-super-Mare, Somerset. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday August 20, 2015. Photo credit should read: Yui Mok/PA Wire
  • Thursday, 20 August, 2015
    World
    Banksy’s Dismaland
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