The $1 billion project began in 2015 but was put on hold in 2019 when the Chinese-backed developer Oceanwide Holdings ran out of funding.
Noting that ‘Graffiti in national parks is illegal’, SANParks said that some structures on Lion’s Head were painted in the colours of Palestine recently.
Granted, the interview was recorded radio twenty years ago and was never released.
The anonymous artist confirmed an artwork as his by posting Instagram pictures of a gymnast on a destroyed building.
In the final episode of the BBC’s ‘The Outlaws’, Christopher Walken destroyed a genuine Banksy artwork.
Banksy has claimed ownership of another mural, this time in Bristol, which is in keeping with his pandemic street art.
Watch Banksy in action as he transforms a carriage on the London Tube into a public service announcement about wearing a mask.
The first footage of the polar bear appeared on a Russian Instagram account two days ago, and shows the bear with ‘T-34’ emblazoned across its back.
Alan Winde posters are dotted all over Cape Town’s lamp posts, and it appears some people have taken a liking to scribbling on them.
Banksy’s famous ‘Girl With Balloon’ sold for R19,5 million at a Sotheby’s auction in London. Seconds after the piece was sold, it started to shred itself.
Some artists have found themselves under fire on social media, following their failed attempts at celebrating the life of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
This is what happens when you’re blinded by ambition and invite people who don’t support your views to do artwork that you can’t even understand.
There’s no doubting that Woodstock has quickly become one of the cool cat hangouts over the past few years. If the street art has ever caught your attention you’ll want to know about this.
It looks like you can add graffiti to the long list of things our politicians can’t seem to agree on after conflicting reports on a spray-painted message outside Parliament.
If ever you wanted to do something big (or go home) then these are certainly the guys to talk to – they’ve made the world’s biggest piece of graffiti. And it can be seen from Google Earth.
You would think when you find some unknown graffiti on the underside of a plane a security sweep would make sense? It did to these crew, who refused to fly.
Has the world of underground activists and graffiti artists gone too far? Check out their latest ‘piece’…
Banksy’s latest piece of art has popped up on a wall in Bristol, parodying the famous work by Johannes Vermeer. Check it out after the jump…
Ah, spray paint. Not just for walls and the sides of trains. Here we see it on a crazy expensive car. Grab a tissue, ’cause this is SAD.
Banksy’s artwork has a huge following and his pieces are sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds, but his latest street-art piece wasn’t appropriate enough for the Tendring District Council.
Banksy’s latest piece is a social commentary on relationships and individuals’ social interactions through technology. But if you ask us, his new artwork is as stale as mouldy bread.
People are thinking of very creative ways to use aerial drones, ranging from aerial photography to delivery drones. The famous graffiti artist, Katsu is known for his innovation in the art form. His latest creation is a graffiti drone – check it out in action.
Banksy has hordes of Americans drooling and panting over his most recent installations all over New York. In October, he took a 31-day ‘residency’ in the streets of NY, and in that time managed to turn 5 neighbourhoods into one massive graffiti scavenger hunt. His stay caused waves across American media, as he taunted Mayor Bloomberg, criticised the new world trade centre design and filled a slaughterhouse delivery truck filled with animatronic pig and sheep plush toys.
Remember when we broke the news yesterday of Banksy’s art being defaced in New York? Well, if the images weren’t enough to go by, we got hold a video that sheds light on just how bad the graffiti has gotten.
Banksy has broken his silence with a rare and “confidential” interview with the Village Voice. He’s been living in New York now and made the streets home to his exhibit, entitled “Better Out Than In”.
No matter how old you are, a penis drawing on anything is still hilarious. Take a look at this big guy, spray painted on the Nurburging in Germany.
Jet-setting street muralist, ABOVE, recently visited our shores. While he was here he got the opportunity to express his concerns about an issue that lies very close to his heart, blood diamonds. How did he express himself? By defacing the façade of Johannesburg’s largest diamond exporter, with their consent. Click through for pics.
Steal Banksy from Art Series Hotels on Vimeo.
The Melbourne-based Art Series Hotel chain is holding an art-stealing competition, starting this Thursday. For the next month, a signed print of Banksy’s “No Ball Games,” worth ZAR 125 500, will be hidden in different locations throughout the chain’s hotels. If people can find and steal it without getting caught, they get to keep it.
Remember that Mavericks billboard over at Kloofnek Road? The one with the half-naked lady advertising some or other fragrance for men, that people have been getting a little upset about? Well it was subtly edited by some enterprising soul last night. Take a look at the billboard-bomb after the jump.
Brazilian ad agency Loducca has put together a collection of geo-tagged street art from Google Street View for Red Bull. The site is sweetly designed, with decent Cape Town representation. How exactly this is going to sell Red Bell any caffeinated beverages is beyond me, but whatever.