Security Camera vinyl decals (available here) for your toilet, fridge, wall or window… Predictably, the decals remind me of this installation by Banksy.
Monday night Pierce Jackson and I swung by Kim Hastreiter’s (Geoffrey Beene) book launch at Diane von Furstenberg. Countless mimosas and hors d’oeuvres later, we fled the fashionable crowd and Pierce insisted that I jump in a cab with him rather than head home to sleep. He promised that my effort would be worth it. He was right.
We ended up at Banksy’s latest stunt exhibit (Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill), where I sat mesmerized by wiggling hot dogs, masturbating monkeys and self-dipping chicken nuggets. Although I knew that all of the ‘animals’ were created with animatronics prior to my visit, it’s easy to forget upon entering the store. At one point, as I was watching the “Fish Fingers” swim around their glass bowl, a pet store employee came over with a net and pulled a motionless one out. Wide-eyed, I suddenly wondered if the little fish stick was dead. It wasn’t until I saw Pierce laughing at me that I realized it probably just needed a new battery…
The Leopard Jacket at Banksy’s Village Petstore and Charcoal Grill…
I had (selfishly) hoped to wait until I dug my claws into this before spreading the word. However, then a little publication called the New York Times went and ruined that plan…
The rumors are true: Banksy is — or was, or has been — in town, and he’s doing more than just painting, or hiding.
This one is not a mural but an installation: a mock pet supply shop, filled with animatronic creatures like a rhesus monkey and would-be creatures like fish sticks swimming in a tank. The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill, as the green awning reads, is Banksy’s first official exhibition in New York, his representatives say, and it will be open to the public daily through Oct. 31.
“I wanted to make art that questioned our relationship with animals and the ethics and sustainability of factory farming,” Banksy said in a statement distributed by a publicist, “but it ended up as chicken nuggets singing.”
I’m enjoying (but doubting the validity of) this…
Gothamist is claiming that this new humorous mural on the corner of Grand and Wooster in downtown Manhattan is courtesy of infamous street artist Banksy and executed by the painters at Colossal Media, the same company responsible for all those hand painted billboards in Soho for H&M, among others. (via)
The nice middle-class boy who became the graffiti guerrilla…
Banksy?! Swoooooon…
