LONDON — Art collectors were left stunned on Friday evening when a Banksy painting appeared to self-destruct just moments after it was sold at an auction, in a prank apparently orchestrated by the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONDON (AP) — A work by British street ...

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 ...

Entertainment Banksy’s Shredding Prank Misfired, He Says: ‘In Rehearsals It Worked Every Time’ As the $1.4 million artwork began passing through a shredder hidden in its frame, gasps were heard in the ...

LONDON — A work by British street artist Banksy that sensationally self-shredded just after it sold at auction three years ago fetched 18.5 million pounds ($25.4 million) on Thursday — a record for ...

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 ...

IT was perceived as a stunt to increase the piece’s value, but Banksy has admitted the partial shredding of his painting was the result of a glitch. The video shows the famously anonymous artist ...

LONDON (AP) — A work by British street artist Banksy that sensationally self-shredded just after it sold at auction three years ago fetched almost 18.6 million pounds ($25.4 million) on Thursday — a ...

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