16 h. ago Moment thief steals £270,000 Banksy print to pay off drug debt

A dramatic smash-and-grab burglary of a £270,000 Banksy print from a London gallery was captured on video.

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24 h. ago Man jailed for ‘smash and grab’ theft of Banksy’s Girl with Balloon print

Man jailed for ‘smash and grab’ theft of Banksy’s Girl with Balloon print  Al Jazeera

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29 h. ago Shock moment burglar robs art gallery of Banksy’s iconic Girl with Balloon worth £270k as thief jailed

THIS is the shocking moment a burglar stole Banksy's iconic Girl with Balloon artwork from a London gallery. The thief who stole the £270,000-worth signed print has now been jailed. CCTV footage caught the "dramatic smash-and-grab" late night robbery which was carried out on a September evening last year. The prized possession pictures a stencil...

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31 h. ago Man jailed for stealing Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ print in smash

Man jailed for stealing Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ print in smash-and-grab London robbery  CNN

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32 h. ago Man jailed after stealing £270,000 Banksy print to pay off historic drug debt

Larry Fraser, 49, stole the limited edition painting from the Grove Gallery in Fitzrovia, central London, in September 2024

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33 h. ago Man jailed for stealing £270k Banksy print from London art gallery

Judge Anne Brown described the incident as a ‘brazen and serious non-domestic burglary’

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34 h. ago Moment brazen thief breaks into London gallery to steal £270,000 Banksy artwork...before casually strolling down the road with it tucked by his side

Larry Fraser, 49, made his way through London with the Banksy print Girl with Balloon tucked by his side after being stolen from a gallery in the capital.

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63 h. ago Princess Eugenie's art gallery charged with breaching Russian sanctions after HMRC probe

Princess Eugenie, 35, has worked with Hauser & Wirth, which has two central London showrooms, since 2015 and is a director of the gallery, according to an interview on its website

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64 h. ago Princess Eugenie's art gallery is charged with breaching Russian sanctions 'after supplying luxury goods to Moscow

It allegedly supplied the painting Escape from Humanity by American artist George Condo to the art collector sometime between August 10 and December 31 2022.

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3 d. ago Sex, lies and pistachio shells: the disturbing dream worlds of artist Joseph Yaeger

The American takes strange film stills and turns them into monumental watercolours, full of Catholic guilt and paranoia – and it’s made him the most talked-about painter of the moment‘All paintings are in their own way accusations and confessions,” says Joseph Yaeger. “It’s what Polygrapher is about.” This is the title of the artist’s new exhibition, his first since joining the prestigious London gallery Modern Art in 2024, for whom it marks the opening of new premises in St James’s.Honesty is important to Yaeger, whose upbringing in the US in Helena, a town that he says ambitiously calls itself the capital of Montana, was as decent as it was unremarkable. “We’d sit down for dinner together every night, we’d go to church every Sunday, we’re polite almost to a fault, and traditional in almost all senses of the word.” Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Stealth artist sneaks AI portrait into museum saying 'I'm not asking permission'

Elias Marrow's 'guerilla art' was seen by hundreds before gallery bosses removed it, and he has also pulled off similar stunts in two more major museums - but one visitor wasn't impressed

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8 d. ago Watch the moment Celeb Traitors stars react to finale’s shock twist – as winner is crowned

THE murdered and banished Celebrity Traitors stars reunited for an emotional viewing party last night where they watched Alan Carr crowned the winner. It was a tense end to the most dramatic of series, with traitor Alan managing to pull the wool over the faithfuls' eyes for a final time. He convinced co-stars Nick Mohammed...

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1 week ago Melanie and Janet behind the beauty store counter: Victor Wedderburn’s best photograph

‘Melanie was my then wife – I couldn’t earn enough from photography, so we got a bank loan and opened the shop, with Janet as a partner. My photos from that time feel important now because that community is gone’This picture was taken in our beauty shop in Bradford, called Shade. Janet (right) was a friend of my then wife Melanie (left). I’d spent a good two years taking photos and I enjoyed it, not that I thought my work was good enough to be shown in an art gallery. I couldn’t earn enough from photography to cover the costs of the materials, so we decided to get a bank loan and open the shop instead, with Janet as a partner.I first got into photography in 1983, aged 28, after I was made redundant from my truck-driving job. I had a friend who did photojournalism and I used to go and watch him develop black-and-white photos in his darkroom, where you have a red light on to see what you’re doing. So when I heard about someone who was selling a colour kit, I jumped at the chance. I th...

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1 week ago The world’s biggest permanent art gallery for illustrations is coming to London in 2026

The world’s biggest permanent art gallery for illustrations is coming to London in 2026  Time Out

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1 week ago Shock moment Miss Universe plunges into CHAOS as winner storms out of event & pageant boss blasts contestant as ‘dumb’

THIS is the dramatic moment Miss Universe winner Victoria Theilvig leads a mass walkout from a star-studded pageant event in Bangkok. The 21-year-old beauty queen stormed out in solidarity with Miss Mexico after the pageant president publicly reprimanded her on camera. Theilvig, the first Dane to win the title, stormed out of the sashing ceremony...

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1 week ago Keralan martial art and a doggie in the hedgerow – readers’ best photographs

Click here to submit a picture for publication in these online galleries and/or on the Guardian letters page Continue reading...

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1 week ago The Austrian "National Gallery" joins campaign to save art masterpiece council is poised to destroy

Building where it is housed is due to be bulldozed on November 17

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1 week ago Wine thief avoids jail after some of the £31k haul was returned

Wine thief avoids jail after some of the £31k haul was returned  BBC

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1 week ago Shock moment member of Rangers ultras group the Union Bears decks man in busy street with one punch

THIS is the shocking moment a Rangers fan floors a man in a busy street with one punch. The violent incident happened in the Govanhill area of Glasgow, before today's Scottish League Cup semi-final. A large group of Union Bears members, the ultras who follow the Ibrox club, were spotted walking down Victoria Road singing...

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2 w. ago Bungling thief who raided Damien Hirst's London studio while wearing GPS ankle tag is jailed

Liam Middleton-Gomm, 36, broke into Thames Wharf Studios in west London on June 30 and stole about £5,130 of goods including a Dior pram with silver skulls on the wheels.

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