Girl with Balloon' had just sold at Sotheby's Friday for $1.4 milliona joint record for the maverick artistwhen it ...

Everybody’s talking about it. How did the world’s most famous street artist manage to shred — or rather half shred — one of his iconic “Girl With Balloon” paintings moments after it had sold for $1.4 ...

From the AD HOC NEWS Art Desk » Work Series & Retrospective Desk - The editors cover exhibitions, auctions, collections, prizes and artistic positions. Published: July 4, 2026 · Last checked: July 4, ...

BADEN-BADEN, Germany (Reuters) - "Love is in the Bin", the work by graffiti artist Banksy that shredded itself live after it was sold at auction last year, went on display at a German museum - after ...

The director’s cut did not quite follow the plan. As art patrons gasped, Banksy’s work began passing through a shredder hidden in its frame and stopped about halfway through its destructive operation.

From the AD HOC NEWS Art Desk » Auction & Market Desk - The editors cover exhibitions, auctions, collections, prizes and artistic positions. Published: June 30, 2026 · Last checked: June 30, 2026, ...

About halfway through, the shredding suddenly stopped, and the top portion of “Girl With Balloon” seemed to have been saved. But that reprieve, according to Banksy, the street artist who created the ...

British street artist Banksy has stunned the art world with arguably his most audacious prank yet, self-destructing one of his best-known works moments after it fetched more than a million pounds at ...