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AnecdotesBanksy: Portrait of Mother Teresa

By the second day of Banksy`s “Barely Legal” exhibition in Los Angeles in 2006, many animal-rights activists were...

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ImagesBanksy: Escapism, West Bank, Bethlehem

In 2005, Banksy travelled to the West Bank, where he painted the security fence at Bethlehem with a trompe-l’oeil scene of a hole in the concrete barrier, revealing a glittering beach on the other side; it looked as if someone had dug through to paradise.

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AnecdotesBanksy's Pranks

Banksy.. is both a lefty and a tweaker of lefty pieties. At a London antiwar demonstration in 2003, he distributed signs...

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AnecdotesDevilish Duveen

One day a rival art dealer sent an Old Master painting on a religious theme to one of Joseph Duveen`s clients - a...

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AnecdotesBanksy: Southeby's Auction

In February 2007, Sotheby’s presented seven works by Banksy in a sale of contemporary art. “Bombing Middle England”...

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TriviaJennifer Aniston painting at the Met

When she was 11 years old, Jennifer Aniston had one of her paintings displayed in New York’s venerable Metropolitan Museum...

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AnecdotesBanksy's Turf War Exhibit

In July 2003, Britain`s "most celebrated graffiti artist" Banksy, famed for leaving such subversive images as riot...

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ImagesBanksy: Escapist Art,

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AnecdotesBanksy at the Tate

In October 2003, Britain`s "most celebrated graffiti artist" Banksy, famed for spray-painting subversive images (riot...

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JokesCorot: Forgeries

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot ranks among the greatest victims of forgery in the history of art. It has been said that...

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