Two new Banksy murals poking fun at the Barbican Centre have sprung up in central London.
Work by the elusive street artist appeared in a tunnel near the arts hub ahead of an exhibition by American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, who began his career daubing graffiti in New York.
Banksy described the murals as an "(unofficial) collaboration" in a series of Instagram posts.
Alongside an image on Instagram of the first work - a Ferris wheel - Banksy wrote: "Major new Basquiat show opens at the Barbican - a place that is normally very keen to clean any graffiti from its walls."
The second mural, which bears a likeness to Basquiat's 1982 work Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump, is captioned: "Portrait of Basquiat being welcomed by the Metropolitan Police - an (unofficial) collaboration with the new Basquiat show."
New work: People pass the mural near the Barbican CentrePAIt is the artist’s latest major work since he painted a Brexit-inspired mural on a wall in Dover.
The work, which appeared on the end of a row of terraces, shows a workman chipping away at one of the stars on the EU flag.
Basquiat: Boom for Real opens at the Barbican Centre on Wednesday.
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It has been described by the Barbican as the "first large-scale exhibition in the UK of the work of (the) American artist", who died in 1988 at the age of 27 from a suspected drug overdose.