After selling for $1.4 million three years ago, the half-destroyed piece is going back up for sale with big expectations. Would you pay millions of dollars for a partly-destroyed work of art? What if ...

“The Art of Banksy,” a massive touring exhibition of 80 works by the British graffiti artist, is coming to the Magic City Innovation District in Miami this December for Art Basel week. This is the U.S ...

But that doesn't mean that Girl With Balloon is artistically inconsequential. Through the act of annihilation, the painting deploys tactics that have driven art since the early 20th century. The ...

Banksy’s self-destructing painting saga has entered its next chapter. Sotheby’s has revealed that the winning bidder of the artist’s Girl with Balloon, described as a “female European collector” and a ...

Banksy's latest performance piece — which saw him remotely shred his $1.1 million Girl with Balloon canvas seconds after it sold at auction — captivated the world. What was he trying to say? What did ...

A million dollar idea @banksy. pic.twitter.com/GuFsqs0fy7 — JIPS (@JIPS____) October 8, 2018 IT’S THE prank that launched a meme of many shredded images. Last ...

Leonid Bershidsky, formerly Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist, is a member of the Bloomberg News Automation Team. He recently published Russian translations of George Orwell’s “1984” and Franz ...

A buyer who purchased a painting by provocative street artist Banksy for $1.4 million, only to have it shred itself moments later, will keep the piece of artwork, according to auction house Sotheby's.

"We had caught Banksy in the act. The man we had filmed even had fresh paint on his fingers," Nick Bryant wrote of the moment he allegedly captured the anonymous artist in 2018.

Would you pay millions of dollars for a partly-destroyed work of art? What if it were a Banksy piece? It was an iconic Banksy moment. In 2018, the "Girl With Balloon" piece was sold at auction for ...