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Banksy Loses Trademark Case to Greeting Card Company
The European Union Intellectual Property Office ruled that the street artist, who remains anonymous, could not be identified as the unquestionable owner of his "Flower Thrower" stencil.
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EU Officials Ignored Calls for Help, Says Crew of Banksy’s Migrant Rescue Boat
In a video about the rescue boat, which exceeded capacity this weekend and declared a state of emergency, Banksy says that EU authorities "deliberately ignore distress calls from 'non-Europeans.'"
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Banksy Purchased and Decorated a Migrant Rescue Boat
The artist's bright pink motor yacht has already rescued 89 refugees in distress in the Mediterranean.
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Banksy Grafitti in London Underground Accidentally Removed by Cleaners
An employee of the London Tube noticed "some sort of ‘rat thing’" a few days ago and cleaned it off.
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Banksy’s Latest Is an Ode to Healthcare Workers in the UK
The framed painting is now hanging in the Southampton General Hospital. It will be auctioned this fall, with proceeds benefiting the National Health Service.
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How Is Banksy Spending Quarantine? By Turning His Bathroom Into a Work of Art
Stuck at home, Banksy has painted his bathroom with his signature cheeky rats, toppling products and ruining his toilet.
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Banksy Unveils a Political Interpretation of the Nativity Scene in Bethlehem
The work was unveiled this past weekend at the artist’s Walled Off Hotel, which overlooks Israel’s separation wall around Bethlehem.
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Hours After It Was Revealed, Someone Tagged a Banksy Mural About Homelessness
Banksy's latest mural in Birmingham, England imagined two reindeer guiding a bench where a local homeless man slept. Soon after its debut, someone spray painted Rudolph-red noses.
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Buy a Banksy Online, Weird Restrictions Apply
Prices are affordable in the artist's new digital shop, but that doesn't mean the products will be easy to purchase.
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Banksy Opens London Art Shop Same Week He Sets $12M Auction Record
The anonymous artist has opened a shop in the south London borough of Croydon to showcase some of his characteristically humorous items.
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Banksy Designed a "Stab-Proof Vest" for British Rapper Stormzy's Performance at Music Festival
Stormzy's political performance sampled fragments from a speech by Labour politician David Lammy on the disproportional incarceration of Black citizens in the UK while crime statistics flashed on the screens behind the rapper.
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Banksy Sets Up an Unauthorized Art Stall in Venice
The anonymous artist set up a stall to showcase paintings of a cruise ship parked in the canal surrounding the city.