Banksy: Animal Social Commentary

I walked past this on October 5, 2008 in the West Village in New York City and flipped out. You have to check these videos I filmed out. The exhibit/guerilla art installation is unreal. If anyone knows the artist(s)'s name(s), please alert me.

UPDATE 10-9-08: Who: It's Banksy! Where: 89 Seventh Avenue South (near Bleecker Street) in Greenwich Village.

UPDATE 10-9-08: Website

The scene from the sidewalk




The chicken window




Nuggets up-close




The dolphin in a tuna net ride




The rabbit window




The leopard window




The security cam bird window




Sick Tweety Bird inside shop

Banksy quotes

a Banksy piece, Vanina Holasek Gallery, New York City
12/07, Photo Credit: Mark Baratelli
Banksy on fame:

“The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don’t go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit.”

Banksy on modern art:

“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.”

(These quotes are attributed to Banksy, but as with anything Banksy does or makes, you cannot be 100% sure these are actually from him.)

Source: WebUrbanist.com

The Banksy Flickr Group

Banksy artist - 100_7603b
Originally uploaded by normko
I am joining the Banksy Flickr group today. Join me!

Intro video about subversive graffiti artist banksy

A good "intro to Banksy" video

Here's a video about the artist who's work I traveled to Chelsea to see. (See older post about that trip below.)

I bought art and saw Banksy art

The piece I bought


Where I bought it


I know NOTHING about art. I didn't even know there was a Chelsea art gallery district until today, when I stumbled upon it. I'd gone to the district to see a
Banksy show (that he, according to his website, says is "completely unauthorized and unlikely to be worth visiting) at the Vanina Holasek Gallery. I agree. The show was underwhelming and not presented in a helpful manner. His work needs explaining sometimes (like the giant rats and tiny rats all over the place) and none was offered.

Anyways, after I exited the exhibit I walked down the dirty, trashy street and discovered...galleries. For days. And I ended up buying something (see above) at the Ceres Gallery.



A piece by Banksy



The Vanina Holasek Gallery