"Sometimes the cleaning team of the city, they just clean over it in the morning," said Vardar. In his mind, the Banksy Museum preserves Banksy's work for the sake of the public.

“Little of Banksy’s works are visible to the public at large. Most have been stolen for resale, inadvertently destroyed or erased by overzealous city cleaning teams,” museum founder Hazis ...

The Banksy Museum in New York City features replicas of 160 original Banksys. ... "Sometimes the cleaning team of the city, they just clean over it in the morning," said Vardar.

The Banksy Museum is located at 277 Canal Street in Lower Manhattan. ... Most have been stolen for resale, inadvertently destroyed, or erased by overzealous city cleaning teams.

The Banksy is clean. “It admittedly looks better without my name on it,” he said. “That was only put there for justice purposes.” But he still accosts passersby who take pictures of it.

Little of Banksy's works are visible to the public at large. Most have been stolen for resale, inadvertently destroyed, or erased by overzealous city cleaning teams.

One central line of text in the painting has been perfectly cleaned, for legibility. The enormous Banksy, which weighs tons, forms the back wall of the Habana Outpost dining room, somewhat ...

Costa Mesa — Graffiti artist, painter, photographer, filmmaker and activist Banksy has made a career of creating art that isn’t consumed in conventional ways. Working in anonymity, Banksy and ...

At first glance, she could be a prototypical 1950s housewife, wearing an apron over a smart gingham dress, complete with yellow cleaning gloves. But this is a Banksy artwork on the side of a ...

The new Banksy art in Margate, England, was timed for Valentine's Day and showed a woman who appeared to have pushed her abuser into a freezer. (William Edwards/AFP/Getty Images) By Adela Suliman ...

Banksy made a pair of guerrilla works outside the museum, pointing out on Instagram the irony of Basquiat showing at “a place that is normally very keen to clean any graffiti from its walls ...

A museum showcasing replicas of Banksy's work recently opened in New York City. But like its Paris sister location, the new exhibition lacks any approval or authorization from the artist, who has ...