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Deedee Cheriel, 'Desire'

'Street art is like a dog urinating on a wall': Rare female street artist Deedee Cheriel describes working in a man's world

Street art is a male-dominated scene. Not only is a culture of hooded men creating art at night, but it is also in the arguably masculine need to territorialise a given space.

Scottish sculptor and installation artist David Mach’s Blue Picasso screen print is on sale at the London Original Print Fair. £480, londonprintfair.com

iStyle: Artists against the wall

Original works don’t  have to cost a fortune, as Trish Lorenz discovers

I Wish, by Bambi

Bambi: Introducing the female Banksy

In the world of street art, Bambi has it all: critical acclaim, celebrity clients ranging from Brad Pitt to Adele, and a stencil of Amy Winehouse on the street in Camden that's considered to be so culturally important, it is now preserved under a fine layer of plastic. She has achieved this by projecting a distinctly female voice into the male-dominated world of urban etchings.

'Lost' Banksy is withdrawn from auction

Mystery deepens over work that disappeared from Poundland wall

BRING ME THE HEAD OF ADAM RICHES: The high-octane character comedian Adam Riches has created the must-see show of this year's Fringe. In an hour of comedy that plays out like an insane, surreal gameshow, Riches persuades reticent audience members to compete
at swingball, act like Daniel Day Lewis, kiss strangers 'in a way they would never wish to be kissed' and take part in mutant lizard skateboard races.

Adam Riches goes from Daniel Day Lewis to Andy Warhol

Alice Jones' Arts Diary

Paperback review: Dot Dash, By Jonathan Pinnock

What to do when it's raining ducks, and how to fish for mermaids

Great Works: Flaming, 2008 by Zevs

Dirty City Wall, Copenhagen

Forget street art, it's the old fashioned graffiti that's really interesting

Girl About Town: We've been scrawling on walls for literally millennia, so why are outdoor arts so associated with urban cool?

Follow Your Art: Street artists stand up for Anti-Slavery International

They normally scuttle about under the cover of darkness, hoping that the line between “art” and “vandalism” will not be blurred by the authorities. But tomorrow some of the world’s most exciting street artists will stand up in public, openly, to promote an equally underground movement: Anti-Slavery International.

These fancy trays by Ary, available in three tasty designs - folk-stripes, spoons and intricately-drawn butterflies - are made from handmade Swedish birchwood. £25.95, twentytwentyone.com

Mr Brainwash: Banksy's street-art protégé and his latest brainwave

The master of hype arrives in London for a blockbuster new show. Matilda Battersby meets him

Graffiti artist banned from all Olympic sites

A professional graffiti artist has been ordered not to go within a mile of any Games site for more than three months after being arrested over years-old allegations just ten days before the Opening Ceremony. Police were forced to deny using the years-old criminal allegations as a ploy to keep the Olympics free from troublemakers.

The Olympics are a golden target for art satire

Here are some Olympic images that organizers have not approved: A hooded youth making off with an Olympic ring; the same multicolored hoops turned into toasters; a dog doing something a bit rude to a London 2012 mascot.

'The Parachuting Rat' was painted by the artist about 15 years ago on a wall in Prahran suburb of Melbourne.

Banksy's 'Parachuting Rat' accidentally ruined by Australian builder

A work by guerrilla artist Banksy has been accidentally ruined by a Australian builder after he drilled through it to put in a bathroom pipe.

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Newly unearthed papers reveal a shocking extra dimension to the constitutional crisis over monarch’s abdication
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Hollywood's random acts of red-carpet kindness

The Hangover actor Zach Galifianakis’s date for his movie premieres isn’t arm candy  – it’s his 87-year-old friend who he saved from homelessness
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Many managers barely survive a year in post. Martin Baker talks to experts who make a case for clubs using forensic business skills to find the best staff
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Dylan Hartley: Northampton have spent the season proving all our critics wrong

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Watch out Watford: Here comes the secretive Bilderberg Group

Watch out Watford: Here comes the secretive Bilderberg Group

A meeting of global power brokers in a Hertfordshire hotel is exciting conspiracy theorists, but what are they really about?
'The ultimate all-in-one home entertainment system': Microsoft finally unveils its Xbox ONE console

'The ultimate all-in-one home entertainment system'

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Plenty of sleaze

Dating website pulls intimate 'hook-up' section to curb harassment
Inferno author Dan Brown 'honoured' to be invited to join the Freemasons

The Freemasons’ Code

Dan Brown reveals the message that told him door to the lodge is open
Not secure any more: G4S boss heads for exit at last

Not secure any more: G4S boss heads for exit at last

Nick Buckles survived the Olympics débâcle and a £5bn bid fiasco but a profit warning finally triggered his downfall
How to say ‘I’m a sellout’: Tumblr’s David Karp’s message of reassurance to his staff sounded very familiar

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Why clubs are keen to take a stand

Why clubs are keen to take a stand

There's a real desire around the grounds for safe standing. But will the authorities listen?
In the end the fans decided Tony Pulis had made a pig's ear of the job at Stoke City

In the end the fans decided Tony Pulis had made a pig's ear of the job at Stoke City

Disillusion with a siege mentality and negative playing style made change inevitable
James Lawton: The James Hunt I knew is the subject of a new F1 movie

James Lawton: The James Hunt I knew is the subject of a new F1 movie

British driver was fascinating man whose epic duel with Niki Lauda in 1976 was typical of an era of glamour and glory – but also the ever-present threat of death