Valentine's Day Mascara

A brilliant storyteller. Always.

Useful link: https://www.banksy.co.uk

Banksy T-shirt

The limited edition T-shirts have a picture of Colston's empty plinth with a rope hanging off, with debris and a discarded sign nearby and the word 'Bristol' written above. Take a look.

Useful link: http://banksy.co.uk

Banksy's Love Is In The Bin

Sold at the Sotheby's for US$25.4 million. What's Love is in the Bin? Is it a painting? Or, is it now a piece of conceptual art? Or should it be classified as a sculpture? Or is it rubbish? Who decides? Who knows? Duchamp would say it is up to you to decide.

Useful links: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-58908768 I https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/banksy-brings-down-the-house-at-the-contemporary-art-evening-auction

A Great British Spraycation

An Instagram video clip, just over three minutes long called A Great British Spraycation, shows the brilliant artist taking a summer road trip in a beaten-up camper van with cans of spray paint stashed inside a cooler. I'm a huge Banksy fan.

Useful links:

https://banksy.co.uk

https://www.instagram.com/banksy

Game Changer

A painting by the artist Banksy honoring UK healthcare workers has set a new record for the artist, selling for US$23.1 million at Christie's in London. Game Changer, which Banksy donated to the University Hospital Southampton in May of 2020 during the first wave of the pandemic, depicts a young child playing with a toy Red Cross nurse wearing a cape and face mask. In a nearby basket, figures of Batman and Spiderman lay forgotten.

Useful links: https://banksy.co.uk I https://www.christies.com

Create Escape

The picture shows a prisoner--possibly resembling famous inmate Oscar Wilde---escaping on a rope made of bedsheets tied to a typewriter. It's the new Banksy artwork.

Useful link: https://www.banksy.co.uk

Aachoo!!

Banksy has confirmed he is behind an artwork showing an older woman sneezing out her false teeth which has appeared on the side of a semidetached house in Totterdown, Bristol, UK. It shows a woman in a headscarf holding a handkerchief but dropping her walking stick and handbag as she loses her dentures while sneezing. The artwork is so nice. It's so relevant, isn't it? Take a look.

Useful link: https://banksy.co.uk

Show Me The Monet

Banksy's (the anonymous street artist) Show Me the Monet (2005) has been sold for just shy of US$10 million at Sotheby's, nearly double pre-auction estimates. 

Useful links: https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/contemporary-art-evening-auction-2 I https://banksy.co.uk