Banksy Parodies Girl With a Pearl Earring in New Painting
The famous and elusive street artist Banksy has parodied Johannes Vermeer's famous Girl with a Pearl Earring in a new painting in the English city of Bristol. The artist posted a picture of the work, reportedly titled Girl with a Pierced Eardrum, to his website. The painting, photographed from different angles on the site, features an outdoor alarm box as the woman's earring, the BBC reports. Banksy previously graced Bristol with the painting Mobile Lovers earlier this year. Though a report that circulated on Monday claimed the mysterious artist had been arrested, Bansky's publicist Jo Brooks told British newspaper The Independent that the arrest was a hoax. The false reports of his arrest and a raid on his studio recycled details from a previous hoax.