As usual this come from the BEP:
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Banksy, the controversial Bristol-born artist, could be in the running for the controversial Turner Prize. The shortlist for the award - given for contemporary art, which is often attacked as rubbish by more traditional art lovers - is due to be announced this week.
Banksy has been put forward for the annual ú20,000 award by the public after his recent eyebrow raising stunt in which he left a joke rock painting in the British Museum.
The painting, called Early Man Goes to Market, showed the outline of a spear-wielding caveman pushing a supermarket shopping trolley. It was placed in a room containing early medieval relics.
The British Museum has decided to accept Banksy's picture, which is currently on show at the Outside Institute in central London.
A spokeswoman for the British Museum said: "The object will be coming back to the museum and will become part of the permanent collection."
Banksy, whose real name is understood to be Robert Banks but who likes to keep his real identity secret, has built up a reputation with his graffiti-style artwork on walls and bridges around London.
He sprayed the word 'boring' in large red letters on the side of the National Theatre on the South Bank, decorated a railway bridge in Shoreditch with pictures of riot cops and slogans and stencilled two policemen kissing on a wall in Soho.
He was accused of writing his name on a bridge above the M32, in Bristol, a stunt he later denied.
Banksy is reported to be pleased with his Turner Prize nomination, but has declined to comment publicly.
The prize, named after JMW Turner, is given each year to an artist under 50 whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination.
Previous winners have including Bristol-born Damien Hirst, who was awarded the prize in 1995 for an exhibition which featured animals preserved in formaldehyde.
