some sort of Banksy retrospective
The first edition of Wall and Piece was published in 2005. The book summarises the previous three black books, but it also has a lot of new material. Wall and Piece became a major bestseller and a must-have for an initiated Banksy follower.
Team Banksy organised the 2005 edition of The Santa’s Ghetto at Berwick Street in Soho. The show featured, among others, Eine, 3D, Solo One, David Shrigley, Jamie Hewlett, Sickboy, Space Invader, Mode 2, Paul Insect, Dface, Polly Morgan, and Banksy.
The show had an impressive oil painting of the Segregation Wall in Palestine. Most likely influenced by the journey to Palestine a few months earlier and the big murals on the wall.
Photos: Prescripion Art. http://www.artofthestate.co.uk and others
Santa’s Ghetto 05 also had several colourways of the Kate Moss screenprint for sale:
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The collaboration with comedian Simon Munnery resulted in a number of poems stencilled on plywood.
Short poems by Simon Munnery & Banksy:
Photos: Phillips, Sotheby’s and Bonhams
Source: http://www.picturesonwalls.com
Apart from the works in Palestine in August 2005, Banksy concentrated on London this year. An interesting development in this period is the street installations in the London urban landscape.
Crude Oils opened on 22 October 2005 at 100 Westbourne Grove in London and was Banksy’s third major exhibition after Severnshed and Turf War in 2003. It featured 20 + versions of classical oil paintings by Van Gogh, Hopper, Warhol, Turner, and Monet. Also present were 200 live rats and some interesting sculptures.
Channel 4 did a feature on the exhibition:
In August 2005, Team Banksy visited Palestine, where they painted nine large murals on the segregation wall. Banksy commented that the wall “essentially turns Palestine into the world’s largest open prison.” Banksy’s website reminded readers that Israel’s 425-mile-long West Bank barrier, separating Israel from the Palestinian territories, is considered illegal by the United Nations.
During the visit to Ramallah and surrounding areas, Banksy reported some tense moments. His spokeswoman, Jo Brooks, said: “The Israeli security forces did shoot in the air threateningly, and there were quite a few guns pointed at him.”
This time Banksy infiltrated the British Museum, installing a cave painting on a piece of rock depicting a primitive man pushing a shopping trolley.
On a Sunday, 13 March, Banksy hung his work in four world-famous New York museums: the MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the American Museum of Natural History. The pranks were presented in the following way on http://www.banksy.co.uk:
On 24 March 2005, Banksy did a remarkable interview on the New York pranks on a National Public Radio show called All Thing Considered. You can listen to it here:
Source: https://www.npr.org/2005/03/24/4559961/hang-and-run-artist-strikes-nyc-museums
Here is same interview accompanied by some footage of the pranks:
Banksy unofficial 