Banksy has painted Basquiat-inspired artworks on the walls of the Barbican, just days before the London gallery is set to open a major exhibition of the late New York artist's work.
The two works were first spotted on the walls of the Barbican earlier this week, ahead of the opening of the Basquiat: Boom for Real exhibition tomorrow, 21 September 2017. Banksy ? the famously anonymous street artist ? confirmed he was behind them via his Instagram account.
The larger of the two pieces appears to be Banksy's own take on Jean-Michel Basquiat's Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump, created in 1982.

Major new Basquiat show opens at the Barbican - a place that is normally very keen to clean any graffiti from its walls.
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It depicts a figure being frisked by two police officers, and is captioned with "Portrait of Basquiat being welcomed by the Metropolitan Police ? an (unofficial) collaboration with the new Basquiat show."
The second artwork shows people queueing for a ferris wheel adorned with crowns ? a common motif in Basquiat's artwork ? instead of passenger carts.
The caption seems to mock the Barbican's motives for holding a retrospective of works by Basquiat, who started out as a graffiti artist. It reads: "Major new Basquiat show opens at the Barbican ? a place that is normally very keen to clean any graffiti from its walls."
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