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Applause This artwork does not show the scene you might expect. There is no theatre box, no velvet curtain, no clapping audience. Instead there is the deck of an aircraft carrier.   A fighter jet stands... Read more

Rude Copper We go back to the very start of Banksy’s career, to 2002. In this image, called Rude Copper, a British police officer stands in full uniform, but his hand is raised, making the classic... Read more

Pulp Fiction This is one of Banksy’s best known works that bring cinema together with street art. It reinterprets the most iconic scene from Quentin Tarantino’s legendary film Pulp Fiction, the famous pose in which John... Read more

HMV (His Master’s Voice) We start with one of the world’s most recognisable commercial logos. His Master’s Voice is an image that goes back to a painting Francis Barraud made in 1899. A dog named Nipper... Read more

Police Riot Van This piece comes from Dismaland, the project Banksy set up in the summer of 2015 in the English town of Weston-super-Mare. For five weeks the artist ran what he called a “bemusement park”... Read more

Media Canvas This piece questions how war is turned into an image, and behind it lies a specific philosophical debate.   In texts he wrote during the Gulf War in 1991, the French thinker Jean Baudrillard... Read more

Festival The composition shows a queue at a music festival. The people waiting are drawn in punk, goth and hippie styles, representatives of subcultures historically defined by their stance against capitalism. At the front of the... Read more

Gangsta Rat The composition has three elements. At the top, a graffiti tag in dripping red paint reads “iPOW”. Below it, drawn in a black and white stencil, is a rat wearing a New York style... Read more

Sale Ends Dated “21 July 2006”, this piece was shown that same year at the “Barely Legal” exhibition in Los Angeles.   The image shows four women in robes and veils, some kneeling in prayer, some... Read more

Monkey Guns This artwork, made in 2000, is a spray paint on canvas work that carries Banksy’s characteristic stencil signature.   The composition shows two monkeys in symmetrical poses, each pointing a gun at the other.... Read more