Entertainment Banksy’s Shredding Prank Misfired, He Says: ‘In Rehearsals It Worked Every Time’ As the $1.4 million artwork began passing through a shredder hidden in its frame, gasps were heard in the ...

British street artist Banksy has stunned the art world with arguably his most audacious prank yet, self-destructing one of his best-known works moments after it fetched more than a million pounds at ...

Banksy's famous self-shredding Girl Without Balloon, will all be on display at Sotheby's Icons exhibition and you can visit ...

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.

After last week’s welter of breathless reportage surrounding Banksy’s surprise pantsing of the art market at Sotheby’s London, I had made it a pre-New Year’s resolution never to mention the ...

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 ...

In reading week I went to see the Banksy Limitless exhibition in the Sussex Mansions, South Kensington. This is a limited ...

The video shows the famously anonymous artist constructing the shredding mechanism inside an ornate frame and pushing a button in a black box to activate the destruction at Sotheby's in London earlier ...

Europe’s most popular Banksy exhibition is set to land in Manchester next Spring. The Mystery of Banksy - A Genius Mind is set to open on March 13, 2026, at Depot Mayfield and will be open to the ...