Art Market Monitor

Did Britain’s Mail on Sunday Un-Mask the Graffitti Sensation?

After exhaustive reporting by the newspaper the Mail on Sunday here and repeated by First Post, there are reports that Banksy is Robin Gunningham–and hardly the street persona that a graffiti artist would be expected to be. (That’s probably a good thing.)

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• Banksy Voted Down by Tagger
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• An Art Fund Revealed
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• Painting to See His Name Everywhere
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