A community centre that's home to some of Banksy's earliest artwork has been sold. The Dug Out youth club in Barton Hill, Bristol, where street artists like Banksy and Inkie started out, has gone for ...

A rare Banksy artwork, hand-painted by the elusive street artist and owned by U.S. musician Mark Hoppus, heads to auction on ...

Rare Banksy painting sells for $5.5 mn at London sale A rare painting ... Vettriano left school at 15 to become a trainee mining engineer. He took up art after a girlfriend gave him a box of ...

He took up art ... Banksy – whose identity has not been publicly revealed – is best known for his hard-hitting murals, often ...

Hoppus said he was drawn to the subversion, humor and intelligence of Banksy's work and the similarities between "skateboarding, punk rock and art." "I feel like street art and punk rock have the ...

In a city famed for graffiti and murals, rival exhibitions in Belgrade showcasing the impact of British street artist Banksy have led to a colourful debate over the commercialisation of street art.

Yet Banksy is still part of a visible art history tradition, Barker says, noting that the graffiti artists Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat also “came off the street and into the gallery”.

Banksy painting from the artist's Crude Oil series sold for £4.3 million ($5.5 million) at Sotheby's Modern and Contemporary ...