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These range from unsigned, unnumbered pieces costing £400 to £800, to £40,000 or even £130,000 limited runs, according to ...
Banksy's "Girl with Balloon" is destroyed by a remote-control shredder at Sotheby's. The British street artist Banksy appeared to pull off one of his most spectacular pranks, with a frame that ...
How Banksy’s latest stunt plays into the history of destruction in avant-garde art October 7, 2018 Art prankster Banksy shredded a framed canvas at a London auction on Oct. 5, 2018.
When a Banksy painting “self-destructed” after selling at auction for £1.04 million ($1.4 million) last week, it looked like the perfect stunt – one that caught onlookers and the art world ...
Banksy’s latest stunt is also a subversive economics experiment By . Leonid Bershidsky. Published Oct. 9, 2018, 9:48 a.m. ET. REUTERS ...
In this sense, this latest Banksy outrage most resembles a stunt from his 2013 unsolicited “residency” in New York, when his team set up a street stall, selling original Banksy stencils for ...
Banksy’s latest stunt has precedence in the art world. The German artist Gustav Metzger coined the genre “auto-destructive art” in the 1960s, ...
Banksy’s “Girl With Balloon,” a 2006 spray painting on canvas, self-destructed a few moments after it was sold at a Sotheby’s contemporary art auction.
What did Sotheby's know about the headline-grabbing stunt, ... Here’s What Really Happened With Banksy’s Art-Shredding Stunt at Sotheby’s, According to Kenny Schachter’s Source.
Banksy’s style of ’Good Mischief’ is a much-needed tool for mocking the systems that slow society’s progress. Plus it’s fun as hell.
Banksy’s Art Stunt Is Economic Genius. His shredding trick demonstrates the street artist’s talent for exploring the ways in which people value art. October 8, 2018 at 4:21 AM EDT.