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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

After the Sotheby's auction in which Banksy's artwork was shredded seconds after the sale, the artist releases a video explaining how it didn't quite go to plan. Two more of his prints "Stop and ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A painting by mysterious British artist Banksy shred itself into pieces at the moment it sold for more than 1 million pounds at a London auction on Friday. Onlookers gasped and ...

The Grove Gallery in London was showcasing a collection of 13 Banksy pieces worth about £1.5 million ($3 million) when the iconic print was stolen.