Girl with balloon, by Banksy.<\/p>\n
As the largest Banksy exhibition operating with authenticated art, Boersma says there\u2019s more than meets the eye with each artwork on display. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re guided through the exhibition where visual moments have been created, in a theatrical way so that you see the unexpected. We have interviews from his ex-girlfriends, and we have the personal messages at the back of the frames. We have the hand-drawn sketches \u2013 the actual, hand-drawn sketches.\u201d <\/p>\n
Each piece has been rented from a Banksy owner, who according to Boersma, want the artworks to be seen. <\/p>\n
\u201cMost of those who rent pieces to the exhibition are long-term Banksy buyers. When Banksy wasn\u2019t Banksy, there was a small group of people who were buying direct from him. They are lovers of the work who rent it to us because they want people to see the artwork, instead of having it hang on the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Art of Banksy is not curated or authorised by the artist and only displays authenticated art sold or gifted by the artist, no replicas or art removed from the street. <\/p>\n
The exhibition runs until Tuesday January 27, 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Girl with balloon, by Banksy. As the largest Banksy exhibition operating with authenticated art, Boersma says there\u2019s more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[22124,1228,4914,442,498,499,500,13627,1288,4487,2199,501,32565,156,78,24350,3025,39540,111,139,69,90,117625,5424,100545,15146,17450,2963],"class_list":["post-186878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-22124","tag-art","tag-artists","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-banksy","tag-capital","tag-christchurch","tag-city","tag-design","tag-display","tag-entertainment","tag-in","tag-modern","tag-most","tag-mysterious","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-regarded","tag-street","tag-widely","tag-works","tag-worlds","tag-zealands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}