A few of the images, like this one found in the Sorbonne neighbourhood, are seen as tribute to the May 1968 student uprising that shocked France. It has been read as a dig at the decline of French ...

A mural by famous artist Banksy has been stolen from outside the Pompidou Centre in central Paris. The artwork, depicting a rat with a face mask holding an artist's utility knife, was taken from ...

The Paris judicial court has sentenced a man for the theft of a work by renowned street artist Banksy. The artwork, depicting a rat with a box cutter, which was on a billboard near the Centre ...

Guy Martin covers culture, travel, and Thoroughbred racing. Of the many high-end art world hijinks in the last year, certainly Banksy's trick of remote-control shreddng of his own 'Girl with ...

Italian police have uncovered a large-scale pan-European forgery network making and selling fake artworks attributed to some of the biggest names in modern and contemporary art including Banksy ...

and Paris. “The art world is the biggest joke,” he said. “It’s a rest home of the over privileged, the pretentious, and the weak.” Although details of the artist’s life are largely unknown, it is ...

open image in gallery Modern and contemporary fake artworks, including Banksy, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol, are displayed after Italian police uncover crime ring (via REUTERS) The investigation ...