Online company managing the Margate mural, intended as a comment on domestic abuse, has already sold more than £250,000 in shares

But some critics are arguing that Migrant Child, which has been slowly deteriorating since it first appeared in 2019, should be left alone

With his first official solo show in 14 years, Banksy left his tag on the Scottish city, home to the mysterious street artist's favourite work of art in the UK

A comment on domestic violence, a six-figure sum has been pledged to Margate charity Oasis

The 2004 work Congestion Charge has a high estimate of £1.8m in the 29 June auction

Phones will also be banned in the exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow

Activists say boat was seized after taking 180 rescued people to Lampedusa and has been impounded for 20 days for violating new Italian laws

Karen Lo says the dealer Pearl Lam never followed through with her purchase of a well-known painting by the secretive British artist

Anonymous artist appears to have watched the new installation in the English county of Kent being destroyed before posting it Instagram

Ajax Systems has deployed $13,000 worth of security and monitoring apparatuses at four Banksy murals in and around Kyiv

The anonymous street artist has emblazoned a wall in Margate with an image of a woman disposing of her abusive husband

The suspect has not been identified by police, but is likely to be an environmental activist who told press that he intended to auction the work in support of the Ukrainian army

The work is one of seven the artist created in war-torn areas of the country last month

The work, depicting a boat of refugees, is at Context Art Miami fair

The artist did not hold back in an Instagram post accusing the brand of illegal use of his artwork at a London store and encouraging his followers to shoplift from it

The secretive artist has dropped a short making-of documentary chronicling his guerilla interventions in war-torn Horenka

Overturned ruling allows Banksy to continue to conceal his identity, according to a trademark lawyer

The pieces are located throughout the country, from Kyiv to Borodyanka

The secretive artist apparently created a stencil of a gymnast amid the wreckage of a building in a city northwest of Kyiv

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The iconic mural of a girl on a swing, and the storied building on which it was painted, are expected to bring between $16m and $30m

The award will apparently be conferred to an empty chair as the artist—whose identity is secret—will not be attending the University for the Creative Arts ceremony

Seven individuals given jail terms for stealing “sad girl” tribute work

The crooks removed the mural that was painted on an emergency exit door of the Parisian concert hall, though there is disagreement over who ordered the theft

Welsh town lost a work by the anonymous street artist but hopes to become new urban art hub

Mural of child playing in ash removed from view after three years, just days after the actor Michael Sheen described the display as “uninspiring”

Hessink’s will auction three of the British street artist’s outdoor pieces next month in Amsterdam, though none have been authenticated

The art reportedly includes "more than a dozen" works by Banksy bought by the London-based financier, Maurizio Fabris, via an offshore trust in New Zealand since 2009