Street art

Remembering Hanif Kureshi, the artist credited with popularising street art in India

Kureshi decorated India’s public spaces with beautiful, provocative and socially engaged murals

Diaryblog

'Banksy woz ere': what's next for the street artist's menagerie?

London Zoo removes mural, but remains tight-lipped about plans to sell the piece

Banksynews

Banksy unveils gorilla artwork at London Zoo—hours after his rhino was defaced

Depicting an ape breaking animals out of an enclosure, it is the ninth piece in the street artist's animal-themed series across the UK capital

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Banksy’s fifth animal mural in less than a week appears in east London

The picture of a pair of pelicans joins others depicting elephants, an ibex goat, monkeys and a wolf that have popped up on structures across the capital

Diaryblog

Banksy’s London zoo: goat, monkey and elephant silhouettes fox the nation

Do the animal works reflect the state of the UK, the war in Gaza—or something else entirely?

Banksy hits back at UK home secretary, saying the detention of his migrant rescue boat in Italy is ‘vile and unacceptable’

British street artist launched an inflatable boat artwork at Glastonbury to highlight the migrant crisis

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Preserving Banksy: public art database to document the UK’s murals

The project, backed by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, will also capture many of Northern Ireland's politically charged street art works

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Banksy calls for an end to war

New mural appeared in south London of three military drones stuck to a red “stop” sign—but has already been removed by two unknown men

Diaryblog

‘It’s Robbie’—Banksy (apparently) reveals first name in 2003 BBC interview

Chat during Turf War show also touches on ‘microwave meal’ art—and Charles Saatchi

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Scheme to sell fractions of Banksy’s Valentine’s Day Mascara could be illegal, lawyer says

Online company managing the Margate mural, intended as a comment on domestic abuse, has already sold more than £250,000 in shares

Banksy’s 'Valentine’s Day Mascara' mural to be sold back to the public for £120 a share

A comment on domestic violence, a six-figure sum has been pledged to Margate charity Oasis

Faces of refugees and locals to be pasted on Geneva building as part of JR photography project

As number of displaced people reaches record high, French artist's Inside Out initiative aims to bring Geneva community together

Keith Haring show in Los Angeles will highlight his quest to democratise art

The exhibition of 120 works at The Broad in Los Angeles will draw on the artist’s journals and include photographs by his friend Tseng Kwong Chi

Banksynews

Builders accidentally demolish latest Banksy work—and pull the pieces from the rubble

Anonymous artist appears to have watched the new installation in the English county of Kent being destroyed before posting it Instagram

High-tech security systems installed on Banksy’s Ukraine murals

Ajax Systems has deployed $13,000 worth of security and monitoring apparatuses at four Banksy murals in and around Kyiv

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Banksy stands up to domestic violence with new Valentine’s Day mural in coastal Kent town

The anonymous street artist has emblazoned a wall in Margate with an image of a woman disposing of her abusive husband

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Banksy in Ukraine: seven new works appear in war-torn sites

The pieces are located throughout the country, from Kyiv to Borodyanka

Banksy creates mural on bombed out building in Ukraine

The secretive artist apparently created a stencil of a gymnast amid the wreckage of a building in a city northwest of Kyiv

Banksynews

Professor Banksy? Anonymous street artist to get honorary professorship at UK university

The award will apparently be conferred to an empty chair as the artist—whose identity is secret—will not be attending the University for the Creative Arts ceremony

JR in AR: artists wants people to leave portraits in the metaverse in new project

App in partnership with Superblue to be rolled out across cities worldwide

Banksynews

Who needs Banksy? Mural of actor Michael Sheen claims top spot in new street art trail in Port Talbot, Wales

Welsh town lost a work by the anonymous street artist but hopes to become new urban art hub

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Fate of Banksy in Welsh town Port Talbot hangs in the balance

Mural of child playing in ash removed from view after three years, just days after the actor Michael Sheen described the display as “uninspiring”

A Banksy-themed nightclub in Mexico brings the street artist’s oeuvre to the dance floor

From the walls to employees’ wardrobes, the Banksy Social Club is filled with re-creations of many of the artist’s most iconic works

JR news

JR takes on borders and prisons in new film

The French artist’s special gift is to make subversive images seem not just unthreatening, but irresistible

Lance De Los Reyes, graffiti artist known as Rambo, has died, aged 44

The artist painted cryptic poems on billboards and walls across New York City