Banksy in New York: Better Out Than In - in pictures

3 October: Midtown, New York Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

4 October: Lower East Side, New York Photograph: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

7 October: Brooklyn, New York. The artwork was vandalised soon after being painted Photograph: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

The same artwork with plexiglass installed to protect it Photograph: Justin Lane/EPA

9 October: Lower East Side, New York Photograph: Erik Pendzich/Rex Features

10 October: East New York Photograph: Dan Herrick/ZUMA Press/Corbis

11 October: The Sirens of the Lambs. A slaughterhouse delivery truck touring the Meatpacking district and then city-wide until 25 October Photograph: Andrew Gombert/EPA

The Sirens of the Lambs Photograph: UPI/Landov/Barcroft Media

12 October: Concrete confessional, Manhattan Photograph: Dan Herrick/ZUMA Press/Corbis

14 October: Queens, New York Photograph: UPI/Landov/Barcroft Media

15 October: Tribeca, New York Photograph: MAXA/Landov/Barcroft Media

16 October: South Bronx. A fibreglass Ronald McDonald statue has his shoes shined by a real boy. The sculpture will be positioned outside a different McDonalds outlet every lunchtime for the next week Photograph: Erik Pendzich/Rex/Rex Features

17 October: Brooklyn, New York Photograph: Carlo Allegri/Reuters

18 October: West 24th Street Photograph: UPI/Landov/Barcroft Media

18 October: West 24th Street Photograph: Barcroft Media/UPI/Landov

A stencil of a robot painting a barcode on a disused factory wall is covered up with a security shutter Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Features

'Mobile Waterfall' in the back of a moving truck. The work will tour NYC for the rest of the month. Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Features

A man poses for a photograph next to a work in Greenpoint Photograph: Joy Scheller/Barcroft USA

People watch Banksy's installation of the grim reaper figure in a bumper car for Halloween in Lower East Side Photograph: Imago/Barcroft Media

A new work painted at the main entrance to Larry Flint's Hustler Club, entitled 'Waiting in vain...at the door of the club.' Photograph: Imago/Barcroft Media

A three-foot cement replica of the great Sphinx of Giza created by British street artist Banksy, stands in Queens near Citi Field stadium Photograph: Imago/Barcroft Media

Maintenance workers remove graffiti that reads 'Let the Streets Decide', painted on plexiglass erected to protect a work by Banksy Photograph: Zuma/Rex Features

'Ghetto 4 Life', painted in the South Bronx, 153rd Street and Elton Avenue Photograph: Zuma/Rex Features

Photojournalist and graffiti art pioneer Martha Cooper strikes a pose by the work in the South Bronx Photograph: Barcroft Media/Joy Scheller