Graffiti News & Blog

A Telegraph news article is titled “Solveig, a girl graffiti artist, aged 10, is the female Banksy“. Uh … don’t think so.  Not even similar to Banksy, but I guess since he’s the Name most people would understand as “graffiti”, that’s the reference the author chose to use.  Weak. Anyway, I hope this kid is [...]

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Below are the sales results from the December 15th Artcurial Street art auction.  Overall, the auction brought in about 369 Euros and the pieces that sold were in line with the estimates before the sale.  62% of the items Sold 35% went Unsold 3% were Withdrawn. Given the market for collectible art today (which is [...]

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I was notified recently about a Graffiti Art / Street Art auction coming in about a week (actually less … December 15th, in Paris).  I want to support my friends at Artcurial, so you gots ta’ check out the art they are selling.  There is really some amazing works at auction and, frankly, this may be [...]

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If you do the math from this story, you will find that the Banksy Graffiti Art painting is valued in the 500,000 pound range, or in US dollars that’s getting very close to a $750k price tag.   The story doesn’t explain whether the property value would have gone up without the painting, so it’s a stretch to [...]

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Gawker seems on a mission to expose Banksy.  Not sure why they’ve taken this up as a personal mission to uncover arguably the most famous graffiti artist of today.  I don’t know of any specific bounty to identify him, but you’d think they’re after some cash … however, more likely they want recognition for being [...]

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