Banksy could lose the right to his own name as he faces a bitter legal challenge to take his trademark away from him. The millionaire graffiti artist ... his street art 25 years ago.
Yet Banksy is still part of a visible art history tradition, Barker says, noting that the graffiti artists Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat also “came off the street and into the gallery”.
Love him or hate him, there's no denying Banksy's place in art history. The elusive satirist was synonymous with street art in the Noughties, and he remains the one graffiti writer that most ...