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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In the early stages of World War I, Henry Ford - aiming to appeal to heads of state to "get the boys out of the trenches...

While writing about Banksy [the brilliant but reclusive graffiti artist] for The New Yorker in 2007, Lauren Collins met...

"In Ireland, someone recently broke into a wax museum, and undressed the wax figures of Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler,...