Street artist Banksy (Time 100, ’10) has likely wrapped up a month-long installation in New York City with a set of balloons spelling out his name attached to a Queens warehouse. Unveiling a new work each day in October, the controversial artist kept New York at attention with pieces ranging from a replica of the Sphinx made from cinderblocks to an essay in which he called the World Trade Center design a “disaster.” He also bought a painting from a Housing Works thrift shop in Manhattan, painted over it, and donated it back to the store; the piece, featuring a Nazi soldier looking out over a mountain landscape, then sold at auction for $615,000.
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