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.

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

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

Prankster graffiti artist Banksy once posted the words "Designated Riot Area" at the foot of Nelson`s Column.

Banksy’s first formal exhibition was in 2000, at a Bristol restaurant whose owners he knew... it was not until three years later, with an event called “Turf War,” that he attracted the attention of the London art world. A Barnumesque spectacle, staged at a secret location, it included live pigs and a heifer spray-painted with Andy Warhol’s likeness. Queen Elizabeth II, who had just celebrated her Golden Jubilee, was depicted in a portrait [above] as a chimp.