A woman claims to have captured footage of the elusive British artist Banksy at work on an exhibition in an Israeli mall. The woman said she went into a mall in Herzilya, north of Tel Aviv, and a security guard asked her to sign her name. She noticed an English name on the list and…
Under an army watchtower and across the street from the concrete wall Israel has built in parts of the occupied West Bank, street artist Banksy has opened a guesthouse in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem. In the revered birth town of Jesus, the Walled Off hotel stands three storeys high. Its bedroom walls and hallways…
Elusive British street artist Banksy has opened a hotel in Bethlehem as an art installation, protest and — yes — as place for visitors to stay. Squeezed into a space right next to the separation barrier, the Walled-Off Hotel (riffing on Waldorf Hotel, which sounds the same in a southern English accent) boasts the “worst-view…
(Reuters) — Palestinian police confiscated from a Gaza graffiti artist on Thursday a bombed-out doorway bearing a Banksy painting after the original owner complained of being swindled into selling it cheap. The artist Belal Khaled had paid 700 shekels ($175) for the image of a goddess holding her head in her hand, which had been…
(Reuters) — A Palestinian man was lamenting his misfortune on Wednesday after selling his bombed-out doorway to a local artist without realizing that the image painted on it was by Banksy and could be worth a small fortune. Rabea Darduna, a father of six from northern Gaza, said he sold the iron-and-brick doorway of his…
Banksy’s street art in Gaza. The elusive English street artist Banksy has produced four new works in the Gaza Strip, taking wry aim at the human toll of last summer’s conflict. Six months to the day after the end of the Gaza war, which killed more than 2,100 Palestinians — including hundreds of children —…
You know those images the street artist known as Banksy painted on walls in the West Bank in 2007, and displayed in his recent film “Exit Through the Gift Shop”? Well, they’re not there anymore. Instead, they are on display at an art gallery in the Hamptons, and on sale for very high prices. The…
Two shows with a lot in common opened last weekend: Jason Alper’s “It’s All Back On” at the Guy Hepner gallery in Los Angeles and guerrilla graffiti artist Banksy’s new film “Exit Through the Gift Shop.” Alpsy (not previously known as such) is a friend of mine, Banksy not so much. Or, at least, if…
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