A mural painted by Banksy was recently destroyed as the building it was painted on was knocked down. The mural featured a worker chipping away at one of the 12 yellow stars on the blue EU flag and was located on the
Banksy appeared to reveal his identity in a 2003 interview that is only now being shared by the BBC for the first time. The name Banksy said in the interview his real name is ‘Robin Gunningham.’ In 2003, street artist based in
Banksy’s current exhibition at Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art attracts record crowds. Gallery directors said the artist’s first official solo exhibition for 14 years broke box office records. The exhibition, which closes on Monday, was also open during the night at weekends.
An employee at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, Germany, has been terminated from the museum’s installation team after secretly hanging his own artwork on the gallery walls after hours on February 23. The 51-year-old freelance artist, whose identity remains undisclosed, faces
For the Olympics a mysterious artist called “Invader” has cemented artworks to walls across France’s capital, as well as around the world, even having some carried aloft to the International Space Station. Vincent Giraud, one of the artist’s avid fans in Paris,
Elton John is selling 900 items from his former Atlanta penthouse beginning on February 21 in a series of auctions at Christie’s estimated to gross $10 million. Last fall, John, together with husband and manager David Furnish, sold their 13,000-plus-square-foot Atlanta residence
A database of artistic styles allegedly used to train Midjourney’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) program is garnering criticism on social media after it began circulating online at the end of last year. The “Midjourney Style List” spreadsheet contains more than 16,000 artists’
