Graffiti

Graffiti

• Banksy: the shredding on the wall

  

  Banksy shredding his painting moments after it sold for over £1m at auction showed up the out-of-touch super-rich and everything wrong with modern art culture

• The Walled-Off Hotel opens in Bethlehem: Banksy strikes again

  

  The world famous graffitist is using his fame and fortune to challenge hegemony on the West Bank, notes Kara Bryan

• Greece: bread, education, freedom… and roses too

  

  Kevin Ovenden looks at street culture in this, his fifth dispatch from Greece, and argues that our survival in this crisis decade cannot be through bread alone – we need roses too