French Banksy makes budding snapper a star
Widely travelled: The face of unwitting model Jon Cartwright (Photo courtesy of Jon Cartwright) His face is on walls, doors and, er, skips across the world but if he walked past you in the street you probably wouldn’t recognise him. Amateur photographer Jon Cartwright has become a global phenomenon after a self-portrait he posted on…
Banksy’s Village Pet Store And Charcoal Grill Opens in New York City
British graffiti artist Banksy has opened his first official exhibition in New York. Set inside a fake pet store, works such as a robotic monkey and fish-fingers swimming in a goldfish bowl aim to question the relationship between human beings and animals. Heather Alexander joined the Manhattan crowds for a look at the surreal menagerie.…
Banksy’s photos — Has he really been caught at work???
Banksy: Caught In The Act And Unmasked Reader Chloe sends these images of what is surely a new Banksy piece in Bethnal Green. And she seems to have captured the face of the artist, hitherto unseen. (However, we’ve seen that flower shape before, around Shoreditch—perhaps Banksy is here teaming up with someone else.) The…
The Cans Festival – Banksy street exhibition
THE public is making its mark on graffiti artist Banksy’s first British exhibition in three years as a whole street has been transformed into an art exhibition. The Cans Festival, a three-day street party of stencil art, kicks off yesterday in an old tunnel formerly used by taxis, which was vacated when Eurostar left its Waterloo…
Banksy behind London Cans Festival
IT’S a typical Banksy stunt – flypost the capital with a whole heap of posters and get Internet blogs buzzing with anticipation. But tomorrow at 10.30am all will be revealed. A crack team of top stencil artists, led by the infamous Bristolian, will turn a south London street into a massive outdoor art gallery. The…
