Banksy recently made it on the TIME ‘most influential’ list, and here in London it is easy to see why. His presence is felt everywhere – not only on the walls, but also in the shops who cash in on his name. The most bizarre …
Photo by steve.wilde The boys from Bristol have found themselves on the receiving end of a ban from TfL over a poster showing the cover from their new album, Heligoland. The original artwork, painted by Massive Attack’s own Robert del Naja, has had to be …
For anyone still interested in the Banksy versus Robbo street canal art war, there’s been a new salvo. Robbo, or proxy agents thereof, has written over Banksy’s fishing boy image, beneath Oval Bridge Road, Camden Town on the Regent’s Canal. The counterstrike comes after an …
Above: Robbo’s riposte to Banksy. Below: Banksy’s decorator image, painted over a 25-year-old piece by Robbo. One of the new Banksy murals along the Regent’s Canal has been artfully ‘reclaimed’ by graffiti writer Robbo. Turns out that Banksy had appropriated a 25-year-old piece of street …
We weren’t the only ones braving London’s icy waters over the weekend. Banksy’s been out in his canoe along the Regent’s Canal. The first image in the sequence can be found beneath Camden Street Bridge, almost in the back yard of the British Transport Police …
The seemingly endless hand-wringing over what to do with Banksy murals took a new twist recently. Sutton Council organised a public vote on whether to share or to shaft the punk-themed stencil on Beddington Farm Road. Ninety-three percent of respondants wanted to keep the mural …
Yes, that headline is a tad confusing but bear with us. Bristol comes to Islington for the weekend as The Library on Upper Street – that’s the bar, not the civic provision – hosts a pop up gallery curated by Bristol’s Crazy Fools. Featuring an …
Perhaps taking note of the stew Stoke Newington residents got into after Hackney Council wiped out the Royal Family Banksy, Sutton Council is inviting people to have their say on whether to save the mural on Beddington Farm Road. The Indie reports an initial swell …
Image of graffiti, definitely not art by lindseymclarke We are pleased to announce that the world has officially gone mad: local residents in Stoke Newington are upset that graffiti has been painted over in what they call an act of vandalism. But then again, we’re …
While some were enjoying themselves at the Cross-Stitch party in Hoxton, others in south London were indulging in a spot of “gritting”. Nothing to do with unseasonable road-clearing or even angry teeth-clenching: the word “gritting” is a compound made up of the words “graffiti” and …
Herschell Hershey in Londonist Flickr Pool. (Well, that set of keywords ought to keep Google happy.) The old myth that ‘you’re never more than 10 feet away from a rat’ might be updated to reference the ‘Banksy rat’ in light of a recent spate of …
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