The artist Banksy is a rather polarising man. For some, to even call him an ‘artist’ will rub them the wrong way – just ask the Andy Lee, or as he is better known as the self-proclaimed “art terrorist” AK47.
Spurred into action when Banksy refused to sign one of his prints, AK47 would go onto write a very strange chapter in the history of art in 2004 by stealing The Drinker, a Banksy-made statue, and ransoming it back to the artist.
Although, as the new trailer for the docudrama The Banksy Job (premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival) shows, stealing from Banksy isn’t as easy as it seems: