The director’s cut did not quite follow the plan. As art patrons gasped, Banksy’s work began passing through a shredder hidden in its frame and stopped about halfway through its destructive operation.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The renegade graffiti artist Banksy snubbed the art world again on Tuesday when he dropped off one of his paintings at a New York City thrift store. The Housing Works thrift store ...

But that reprieve, according to Banksy, the street artist who created the work — and who organized the prank to destroy it — was not planned. In a clip posted to YouTube on Wednesday, Banksy suggested ...

Everybody’s talking about it. How did the world’s most famous street artist manage to shred — or rather half shred — one of his iconic “Girl With Balloon” paintings moments after it had sold for $1.4 ...

(LONDON) — A million-dollar piece of artwork by mysterious street artist Banksy was left in shreds before an aghast audience seconds after it was auctioned off for a record $1.4 million on Friday. The ...

Image of a painting allegedly made by Banksy and inserted in the exhibition Mamma Andersson: Memory Banks at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center (all photos courtesy Frizk) CINCINNATI — It seems ...