Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.

“Imagine a city where graffiti wasn’t illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited, not just the estate agents and barons of big businesses. Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall – it’s wet.” 
  
 Banksy cited in: Paul Gough, Banksy: The Bristol Legacy, Bristol 2010, p. 9. 
  
 With its striking simplicity and raw immediacy, Girl with Balloon, 2006, is one of the most widely recognisable images by the anonymous and world renowned artist Banksy. Unlike the other editioned iterations of this famous motif, the present work is a rare unique painting that was given to the present owner by Banksy in 2006 following the artist’s warehouse show, Barely Legal, in Los Angeles. Beating Turner’s The Fighting Temeraire, Constable’s The Hay Wain and Hockney’s A Bigger Splash to the top spot, Banksy’s Girl with Balloon was voted the nation’s favourite artwork in a 2017 poll; a resounding affirmation of the broad and wide reaching popularity of this undeniably iconic and culturally formidable image. 
  
 Born in Bristol and based in England, Banksy has garnered international acclaim for his distinctive style of satirical street art and graffiti, executed using a technique of stencilling. His work is rich in dark humour and frequently captioned with subversive epigrams that provide poignant and potent commentaries on the social and political aspects of contemporary society. Girl with Balloon depicts a small child rendered in black and white who reaches out towards a bright red, heart shaped balloon dangling from a string. Like much of Banksy’s work, the image is an ambiguous one, leaving the viewer to decipher whether the girl is reaching out to catch the balloon – a vibrant emblem of childhood delight – or rather has let it slip from her fingers and is watching in anguish as it drifts into oblivion, a metaphor, perhaps, for the inevitable loss of childhood and innocence. Composed in spray paint and acrylic on canvas, the motif is based on an original graffiti mural first painted outside a Shoreditch shop in 2002 and then on London’s Southbank that same year, this time accompanied by the epitaph ‘There is Always Hope’. Bordered by an ornate gilded frame, an integral element of the artwork chosen by Banksy himself, the present work is a kitschy emblem of pathos. Instantly gettable, Banksy’s graffiti image is a perfect encapsulation of human emotion for the short-attention span of our social media age: it seditiously pokes fun at high-minded art world savoir faire and in doing so appeals to many, for whom it represents a contemporary expression of sanctity, a bright and vivid symbol of hope everlasting. Ultimately, however, Girl with Balloon is the poster-child of Banksy’s art: whether you are for or against him, this image utterly encapsulates the immediacy and controversy surrounding the artist’s mission. ||||| Street artist Banksy appears to have pulled off his most jaw-dropping trick yet—having one of his million-dollar paintings shred itself moments after it sold at auction. 
  
 On Friday night, the “Girl with Balloon” painting sold for $1.12 million to a telephone bidder. Add in buyers permission, and the total cost would rise to $1.37 million. But Banksy—whose real identity remains anonymous—had fit the frame with a shredder that would activate once the painting was sold. 
  
 It was auctioned at Sotheby's, in London. After the painting self-destructed, senior director Alex Branczik told the audience: “We’ve just been Banksy’ed.” “We have not experienced this situation in the past,” Branczik said, according to Financial Times. “...where a painting spontaneously shredded, upon achieving a (near) record for the artist. We are busily figuring out what this means in an auction context.” 
  
 Sotheby’s and the buyer are now discussing whether or not the sale will go ahead. Despite the painting technically being destroyed, there was speculation the painting (or what’s left of it) could now be worth even more. Sotheby’s issued a statement saying it was discussing options with the buyer. “We have talked with the successful purchaser who was surprised by the story. We are in discussion about next steps.” 
  
 Banksy uploaded a photo of the prank on his Instagram account, accompanied by the caption: “Going, going, gone…” It’s received more than 150,000 likes. Girl With Balloon first appeared on a wall in Great Eastern Street in London. 
  
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 In August, a Banksy exhibition was held in Russia—only Banksy had nothing to do with it. The street artist posted a conversation between himself and a friend saying “what the hell was that?” 
  
 The exhibit organizers said his response was a compliment. The exhibit was expected to welcome 300,000 people from July to the end of September. 
  
 In a conversation with an unnamed person, Banksy said he “wishes he could find it funny,” but admitted he would never “charge people to see my art unless there’s a fairground wheel.” People online responded to this logic, agreeing that charging people to see the exhibit was an affront to everything the British street artist’s reputation represented. Many of the commentators disagreed and said that the exhibit was something they enjoyed and thought charging people to see his art only pushed the exhibit further. |||||

Newsweek is saying it could be Banksy's "most jaw-dropping trick yet," and it would be hard to find anyone who disagrees. It happened Friday night at a Sotheby's auction in London, when the enigmatic street artist's 2006 Girl With Balloon painting was sold off for $1.1 million to a bidder on the phone. However, shortly after the gavel came down on the sale, something unexpected happened: The print inside the frame started moving downward as it was slowly shredded. Per the Financial Times, via Vice, the shredding took place "by a mechanism apparently hidden within the base of the frame, with most of the work emerging from the bottom in strips." "We've just been Banksy'ed," Alex Branczik, Sotheby's senior director, told the crowd after the shredfest, adding he hadn't known ahead of time that this was going to happen and that "tonight we saw a little piece of Banksy genius." There are whispers that Banksy himself was at the auction to witness his self-destructive prank, with the Art Newspaper noting "a man dressed in black sporting sunglasses and a hat was seen scuffling with security guards near the entrance … shortly after the incident." On Instagram, Banksy posted a photo of the stunned audience watching his work get obliterated, mischievously captioning it: "Going, going, gone." The buyer may not be totally out of luck: Vice notes that while sales are usually nixed if works are damaged before they leave Sotheby's, the on-site annihilation could actually make the artwork even more valuable. "It's certainly the first piece to be spontaneously shredded as an auction ends," Branczik says.