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anksy’s artwork at Park City, home of the Sundance Film Festival, has been preserved behind plexiglass.
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Guilio/SIPA/Rex Features

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ainted in the derelict Packard motor plant in Detroit; never authenticated but taken away to be put as a key exhibit in a new art
gallery.
© 2010 detroitfunk.com

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urder Mile by Pure Evil painted in a site waiting redevelopment in north London.
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all Street’s charging bull that graffiti crochet artist Olek managed to cover up nicely in an extraordinary piece of crocheting.
Her work lasted only a couple of hours before it was cut off.
Work by Olek; Image courtesy of Jonathan LeVine Gallery

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raffiti artist Ben Eine’s piece in Hackney, painted after David Cameron had surprised Eine and many others by selecting a work
of his to give to President Obama on his first official visit to Washington.
Artofthestate

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aywain with Cruise Missiles (1980), Peter Kennard’s detourned version of Constable’s famous scene, bought by the Tate in
2007.
© Peter Kennard

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raffiti for London by David Samuel. The tube map’s station names have been replaced by the names of the city’s top
graffiti writers from 1980-2000 placed at the stop closest to where they were from.
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ome of the 120 fake Banksy prints discovered by the Metropolitan Police during their investigation into two men convicted of forging
Banksys.
© Metropolitan Police

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pouting girl holding an Oscar painted on a wall in Weston-super-Mare shortly after Banksy failed to win an Oscar for his film. Hailed
as a new Banksy it later turned out to be a fake.
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his image was painted by Team Robbo as part of the ongoing war between Robbo and Banksy over a wall beside the Regent’s Canal
near Camden Lock. Like others before it the image did not last long before Banksy, in turn, painted over it.
© LouisBerk.com

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hierry Guetta or Mr Brainwash, star of Banksy’s
Exit Through the Gift Shop
in front of one of his
Charlie Chaplin
Pink
which sold for $122,500 at auction in New York in 2010.
AlamyCelebrity/Alamy

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wall in Camden with a piece believed to be Banksy in support of Tox, a graffiti artist jailed for twenty-seven months in 2011 for
offences stretching back to 2000.
London News Service/Rex Features

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