Banksy, known for his satirical anti-capitalist and anti-war themes, has used images of rats in his street art from London to New York. Another rat stencil work in Melbourne was accidentally ...

Banksy's signature rat image was virtually destroyed by vandals in 2011, ... He said the loss of significant stencil art had been exacerbated by changes to graffiti laws in 2007.

It seems that Melbourne City Council just can’t get it right when it comes to street art, and especially when it comes to the work of Banksy: two weeks ago, they “accidentally” ordered a ...

A street-cleaning crew inadvertently painted over a stencil of a rat by world-renowned British graffiti artist Banksy, leaving officials in Australia's second largest city scrambling to explain ...

While these artists cemented the use of stencils in the aspiring street artist’s tool kit, it was Banksy who bought worldwide attention to stencil art. The "Banksy Effect" has raised the profile ...

Among the works was a stencil of a goggle-wearing rat created by Banksy during a visit to Melbourne in 2003 — and removed by the crew, which was instructed to eliminate all graffiti from the area.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A selection of works by elusive British graffiti artist Banksy, including the "Mariachi Player" and his "Rat" stencils, are going on sale in June, a Beverly Hills auction ...

An unauthorized retrospective of the work by Banksy opened in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood on Friday. The four-day pop-up exhibition, “BanksyLand,” features more than 50 works by the ...

Art World A Man Brought a Banksy Stencil Onto the ‘Antiques Roadshow’ Hoping for a Big Payday. Instead, He Got Scolded. The show's host admonished the man for taking the work out of public view.

Even with its subversive bent, Banksy’s Haight Street Rat was itself a something of a marketing stunt. One of a series of large-scale graffiti pieces that appeared all over San Francisco in ...

Through a friend of a friend of a friend at the Ghostly Intl. imprint, Metro Times has come to acquire proof of a recent visit to Detroit from none other than Banksy, one of the world's most ...