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Lenin In Sight This artwork, dated 2004 and made in spray paint and emulsion on wood, is one of the most direct examples of how Banksy engages with historical figures.   In the image is Vladimir... Read more

Bubble Slide Girl This piece is one of the simplest and most affectionate examples of how Banksy uses child figures.   It appeared in February 2008 in Hackney, east London, on the outside wall of a... Read more

Mona Lisa Bazooka Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is the most looked at, most reproduced, and probably most exhausted face in the history of art. Banksy’s intervention in this painting targets exactly that exhaustion.   The... Read more

Goat This artwork is the first in the nine day animal series Banksy started in London in August 2024, and it was, in a sense, the flare that set off the whole chase.   It appeared... Read more

Three Monkeys This artwork appeared on 7 August 2024 in east London, on the railway bridge over Brick Lane, as the third in the nine day series of animal pieces Banksy carried out in London that... Read more

Tv Girl Behind this piece lies one of the strangest coincidences in Banksy’s career, a week in which everything went sideways.   In September 2003, the British band Blur, after their album Think Tank, wanted to... Read more

Migrant Child This piece is the result of one of the moments when Banksy turned a city built around art into the setting for a political statement.   On the night of 8 to 9 May... Read more

Statue of Liberty Girl This artwork is one of Banksy’s shortest and most cheeky lines aimed at American symbols.   It appeared in May 2010 on the wall of a worn industrial building in Long Island... Read more

Girl With Telescope This piece is among those Banksy left in late 2015 at the refugee camp in Calais, France, widely known as “the Jungle”.   The composition is quite simple: a child looks at the... Read more

Luxury Rentals Only This artwork is part of the tour Banksy carried out along the east coast of England in August 2021, which he himself called “A Great British Spraycation”. The artist left around ten pieces... Read more