Rob Larsen

This has to be one of his finest moments. Just the circumstances alone are enough to make it a top work, but when one considers the number of Closed Circuit cameras there are in London it get pushed near the top of the heap.

photo courtesy of Flickr user muggy

Banksy pulled off an audacious stunt to produce what is believed to be his biggest work yet in central London.

The secretive graffiti artist managed to erect three storeys of scaffolding behind a security fence despite being watched by a CCTV camera.

Then, during darkness and hidden behind a sheet of polythene, he painted this comment on 'Big Brother' society.

More:

Graffiti artist Banksy pulls off most audacious stunt to date – despite being watched by CCTV | the Daily Mail

Thanks Ryan!

(photo courtesy flickr user Klara Kim)

Banksy was named one of the The 100 most powerful people in British culture

84 Banksy, 34, artist. Once a guerrilla artist of the streets, Banksy now routinely sells his work for six-figure sums. Despite this, he has managed to retain his anonymity.

None too shabby.

They were going for $20,000 not so long ago. £96,000 is a long way away from $20,000.

Check it out:

A screenprint of model Kate Moss by artist Banksy fetched three times its estimated price at an auction last night devoted solely to street art.

The work, a pastiche of Andy Warhol's iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe, sold for £96,000 at Bonhams in London.

The Bristol-based artist's Laugh Now, a stencil image of a monkey wearing a sandwich board which was expected to sell for £150,000-£200,000, went under the hammer at £228,000.

Kate Moss Banksy print fetches £96k

Check the full auction results at Bonhams

The inevitable Banksy post

William Gibson or Banksy, who has been mentioned here more often? Maybe William Gibson since I steal links from him and repost them here all the time (as recently as last week, actually.)

Anyway, here's some new Banksy goodness (and a link to an old favorite found on flickr):

Elusive graffiti artist Banksy has struck again, this time in the Holy Land with a series of stencilled works on the security wall in Bethlehem.

The Bristol-born artist has adorned the West Bank barrier with six new images, including a dove wearing a flak jacket and a soldier being frisked by a young girl.

It coincides with the opening tomorrow of a new exhibition in Bethlehem which is aimed at bringing people to the West Bank to see the situation there first hand.

Previous work by Banksy in the region:

Graffiti artist Banksy strikes again – in Bethlehem

In general, I'm deleting some old crap that goes nowhere and categorizing everything else. As a bonus to that I've found a bunch of interesting old posts and trends that I'd totally forgotten about. Here's one example- This morning I was in the middle of sorting January 2002, when I found my first mention of Banksy here.

I'm ahead of the curve.