Graffiti Artist Banksy’s Summer Show 2009: Banksy vs Bristol Museum

Home grown hero Banksy is staging his summer show in Bristol: the city where his work started to adorn the wall in the 1990s. This may come as a surprise to local councilors who only found out on Friday the day before the exhibition opened on Saturday 13 June, especially as it is being held in the council-owned City Museum and Art Gallery.

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Latest Banksy Exhibition: News and Pictures

Details of the latest (unofficial) Banksy Exhibition in London.

The Andipa Gallery, at Knightsbridge in London, recently held a selling exhibition of rare works by the UKs leading urban artist, Banksy, including the largest canvas ever to come on the market.
All of the works on display were from the galleries collection, built up over the last three years.

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Urban Graffiti Artist Banksy Opens a Pet Shop

When I heard that the controversial Banksy had opened a pet shop, I just couldn’t believe it.
Was there going to be some guy in a ski mask selling rats and cuddly rabbits, or was he just cutting the ribbon at an opening ceremony and would his anonymous cover be blown?
I needn’t have worried. It turned out to be his first official exhibition in New York, at "The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill, in Manhattan".
The well known Graffiti artist who now sells his studio works for hundreds of thousands of dollars, to people such as Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Dennis Hopper, described the fake pet shop as being about "our relationship with animals and the ethics and sustainability of factory farming".
The works in his exhibition are all three dimensional animatronics, and can be seen through the windows of the store.......

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