Banksy

In the past, street artists were seen as vandals who not only damaged someone’s property but symbolized the poor and depressed regions of the city or town. Such an attitude still exists nowadays, but the views on street art have drastically changed. With the appearance of Keith Haring, Banksy, Shepard Fairey, JR, Lady Pink, Swoon, and other famous artists, urban culture started to take a new form – a socially acceptable one. Let’s see how mural painters change cities and contribute to the growth and development of modern culture in cities.

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Banksy wreaks public havoc wherever he goes. The artist enjoys the status of the most recognized, influential, and best-selling street artist of today. Young fans of mural paintings may wonder whether the Bristolian urban art legend has always held such significance for the market and industry. Even though opinions on this matter are divided, you can say for sure that Banksy was among the first in the line to make street art a global phenomenon. Let’s see how it started!

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In August 2021, Banksy took a special vacation in Norfolk and Suffolk where he painted a series of spectacular artworks. Pieces appeared in a range of East Anglian towns in England, including Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Oulton Broad, Gorleston-on-Sea, King’s Lynn, and Cromer. Known as “A Great British Spraycation,” the public exhibition captured the attention of many lovers and haters of graffiti art far beyond the UK.

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These days, the phrase “Banksy exhibitions” sounds a bit confusing and misleading, as the last official artist’s exhibit was “Gross Domestic Product” in Croydon, England, in 2019. But what about all those shows popping all across the world from time to time? Well, Banksy simply called them all “fake” on his official website since they were organized without his knowledge or involvement. By the way, the famous exhibition at the Moco Museum in Amsterdam is one of them. After some time, people just started dividing all the events into official and unofficial, with the last obviously being the most prevalent type out of the two. How many of those Banksy street art exhibitions are official, and what can be done with “unofficial” ones?

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The 2004 Banksy print “Love Rat” went unsold at the Anderson and Garland auction house on June 16. A famous street artist’s artwork was estimated at £30,000-50,000 ($31,000-67,000), but a widely recognizable work didn’t even make it to the lowest reserve price set by the Newcastle-based auctioneers. At the same time, Banksy’s original “The Merrivale Stable” was sold by the same auction house for £1 million ($1,2 million) earlier this year in January. So what was the reason behind an unsuccessful sale, and should there be one?

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