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Art Buff is a 2014 spray-painted mural by the British street artist Banksy, created on a wall in Folkestone, England, as part of the Folkestone Triennial that year. It shows a woman wearing headphones staring at a plinth bearing a patch of painted-over graffiti, a pun on the word buff, slang for covering up graffiti. The mural was vandalized in October 2014, removed the following month, and briefly taken to the Art Basel Miami Beach fair for a planned sale to benefit a cancer charity before a 2015 court ruling and its eventual return to Folkestone in 2020, where it was displayed as part of the Creative Quarter of the town. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Painting 1
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2014 2
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Banksy, Artists
Source Art Buff (Wikipedia)

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Street Art, Art Forms
Source Art Buff (Wikipedia)

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Painting, Art Forms
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1. Art Buff (Wikipedia)
  • Genre reference
    Art Buff is a 2014 spray-painted mural by the British street artist Banksy, created on a wall in Folkestone, England, as part of the Folkestone Triennial that year.
  • Created By: Banksy, Lead sentence
    Art Buff is a graffiti artwork by Banksy which was created in Folkestone in 2014, Banksy announcing it as "part of the Folkestone triennial.
  • In Form: Street Art, Wikipedia intro
    Art Buff is a graffiti artwork by Banksy which was created in Folkestone in 2014, Banksy announcing it as "part of the Folkestone triennial.
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2. Wikidata: Art Buff
  • Wikidata Q18750953, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)
  • Wikidata Q18750953, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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