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.

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 ...

The video shows the famously anonymous artist constructing the shredding mechanism inside an ornate frame and pushing a button in a black box to activate the destruction at Sotheby's in London earlier ...

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 ...

Recent unauthorized Banksy exhibits highlight the ongoing struggle of what obligations society owes to artists. While intellectual property laws primarily provide artists with economic protections and ...

Robert Casterline’s photographs of the incident, including the work shredding itself and people trying to stop it. (images used with permission) Oh, that Banksy! The artist’s Friday night hijinks at a ...

LONDON (CNN Newsource/WKRC) - An art gallery's security camera caught a burglar stealing one of Banksy's most famous prints, worth over $350,000. The manager of the Grove Gallery in London was ...

Art patrons quickly realized they had been framed. "Girl With Balloon," a painting by British artist Banksy, was sold at a Sotheby's auction Friday night in London for more than $1 million, the BBC ...