Starting with a large mural on a former solicitors' office in Bristol, depicting a teddy bear lobbing a Molotov cocktail at three riot police, Banksy has divided opinion, and there will be those who do not regard him as the greatest artist of the past three decades.
The highlights — done under the cover of darkness and then, stunningly, there as the sun rises — are many.
And then there are the extras — the alleged fake documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop; the series of "events" in New York in 2013 that had mayor Michael Bloomberg calling him a vandal and the New York police searching the streets for him; the miserable "bemusement park" Dismaland that lampooned Disneyland et al.
When a touring exhibition of his work was showing in Tauranga a year ago, a graffitti-ed John Key being beamed up into a flying saucer appeared on a wall there the day after the prime minister announced his shock resignation.
Was it Banksy? The mystery was always part of the appeal.
Now he has been named and famed. He is a just a real person after all. It won't be quite the same.