Always one for causing a stir, Banksy has been doing just that while visiting New York City. After completing two large building-sized murals, the renowned graffiti artist has now created a storefront that is, in actuality, a fully-interactive art exhibition. “The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill“, located at 89 7th Avenue between W 4th and Bleeker, shows off Banksy’s penchant for the bizarre. With creepy animatronic animals and oddities at every turn, this is definitely a unique, must-see exhibit that will both disturb and amaze you. If you live or are visiting New York, make sure to take a look before the shop closes for good on October 31st

via: Wooster Collective

Parece que o notório artista/grafireito britânico Banksy escolheu agora Nova York como seu palco preferido. Além de aparecer com imensos painéis onde cutuca a crise americana, gerando grandes especulações na mídia e entre aqueles que andavam pela lower Manhattan

o artista inaugurou esta semana no Greenwich Village (palco do americano Marc Jacobs, que domina a rua Bleeker com quatro lojas) a sua "The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill" onde critica os americanos por gostarem mais de animais de estimação do que de arte e ainda questiona a ética e a sustentabilidade das "factory farming".

Segundo o artista, ainda que "indoor" o projeto pode ser considerado "street art" já que pode ser visto da rua, todos os dias, até 31 de outubro.

I learned last week that there are two Starbucks literally around the corner from eachother. The difference? One is open on Sunday and the other is not.

It reminded me of home because there are three Starbucks at one corner in Rochester. One is a proper shop, one is in a Target store, and other is in a Barnes & Noble. They're all basically at the same street corner. It doesn't bother me per se because I love me some Starbucks; it just seems like a bit of overkill.

The incredible number of Starbucks here in Clerkenwell led me to believe that it was the same across much of London. Yesterday I learned this was not the case.

Eager for some adventure, I decided to venture into Camden Town. This city is significant because, among other things, it's recognized as being the home of Britpop in the 90s.

It was more or less what I had expected. Very busy. Filled with open-air shops and strange looking people. It seems that in addition to being home to the Britpop movement, it also has considerable history in the Goth and punk subcultures in London.

The surprise from the trip was seeing a Banksy mural in person. It had been there a while, but still looked more or less the same.

I didn't hang around long; it was getting dark and I didn't know what else to do. I'd definitely like to go back again soon to look around some more of the shops. Plus there are some good gigs going on there. One of the open-air shops I wandered into felt never-ending. Tiny pathways for people to move, and merchandise coming at you from both sides.

I came home, bought some more tortilla wraps, and made some dinner. Then someone came with glorious news: We can open our windows all the way! Previously the windows in the flat only opened partially. They have locks on them which prevented them from opening any more. As I write this, my window is completely open and I am experiencing a fantastic breeze.

Speaking of windows... looking out of mine is kind of strange sometimes. Directly across from my window is a office building of some kind. And at the top of that office building is an outdoor walk-out where employees can have a seat, smoke, use their phones, and in general just be creepers.

Other than the creepers and the strange window situation, my living situation is pretty ideal. I like all of my flatmates and my room is beginning to feel more like "mine" each day. Now all that's missing are posters. These white walls are driving me mad. I have two "posters" up right now. One of them is the other side of a club advert; and the other is this small square poster that I bought at the fresher's fair.

It still feels strange when I say that I live in London.

But I do.

Nope, still strange.

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Banksy is one of my favorite artists by far, his smart thought provoking street art has been at the top of the game for a while now and he continues to expand and take his craft to new levels all while being a man of the shadows...  his recent visit to NYC has left the city with a few pieces including a Banksy pet store... you have to check it out, from chicken nuggets to fish sticks swimming around in bowls hes once again killed it...

the thought and time that goes into something like this is mind blowing.

Guerrilla artist Banksy has opened his first art exhibit in New York City invoking thoughts about how we care for and treat animals in our society.

What are your thoughts on this?  I personally love his stuff.  Even if I don't agree with some it, I still think it's clever as hell.

Check out a few other images over @ BBC News.

This is on the Obey level of creative non traditional graffiti taken to a whole new level. In one of his books Banksy talks about how he wrote but couldn't keep up so he just made stencils instead.I don't know how he does these stencils as big as they are without getting seen carrying the stencil. But the motto of a graffiti writer is cool, calm, and collective so I'm sure he finds creative Espo style ways to accomplish his goals of spreading his art. He doesnt' try to just get his name up though. He spreads his views on society on society. 

tracing the progression of art in the 20th century from an age of mechanical reproduction to dada, to bauhaus and happenings, a clear train of thought and innovation is seen throughout each movement. each movement brought with it ideals that can still be traced in contemporary society.

just recently, banksy set up an exhibition in new york city that is very reminiscent of the first happenings such as claes oldenburg’s “store.”

banksy’s exhibit deals primarily with exhibiting a pet store through the eyes of society. his approaches are grounded in history and theory and his end product is an absolute masterpiece. click here to learn more.

however, keeping in mind paul d. miller’s above quote, it’s hard to say that any history or theory of the 21st century has been developed that allows for a solid base to anything, especially concerning art. innovations are being made in technology, but it’s with the idea of persistently doing too of much of everything all the time.

in his book, “rhythm science” dj spooky (paul d. miller) says “future generations won’t have a “dependence” on technology. They will have technology as a core aspect of their existence – as much as the languages we speak, the air we breathe and the food that we eat are all aspects of technology.”

banksy’s exhibit addresses these issues, especially presenting technologies overwhelming presence even in the lives of animals.

when discussing language, miller states that the “replication as differentiated from mere reproduction... derived from ‘reply’: the copies transcend the original.”

our thoughts blur, our ideas blur, and suddenly in this age of mechanical reproduction, there is so much going on that what we produce is just a collage of previous movements or ideas set up by others.

so what’s new in our time? what can we offer that’s new? how do we “remix” what we know; hack it... to present something unique to our time so that the sounds don’t blur?

“life is interesting. the writing that gives meaning and some kind of hope to life in this world should be interesting as well.” – paul d. miller

banksy’s newest offering to the art world presents something that is an idea re-mixed. as previously discussed, claes oldenburg’s “store” inhabiting 1107 east 2nd street in new york city created a gallery of art for the everyday passerby. what appeared to be your average store from the outside was a shop filled with tiny artifacts and constructed reality to bring the viewer into the piece. every item in the shop was a work of art, and though displayed unlike any gallery had displayed art to this time, it was a new gallery that was “happening.”

banksy’s store presents the same idea of a gallery of art for the everyday passerby. through his use of animatronics and animal cages, the store appears as a regular pet store. however, upon entering, each display is a work of art. each “animal” is another critique on the human condition fusing technology with ideals and presenting a hauntingly honest view on the world we live in.

“is it as simple as flipping open a laptop and joining a wireless network?” poses miller. “plastic, fluid memories run into circuitry and focus our attention on a world where we download ourselves daily. this is a word game of the non-conscious. this is what the idiot tells us, and this is what we reply.”

dj spooky focuses on art through the idea of the digital medium fusing sound, art and writing into life. noting ideas of sound, his love for writing, and the way that the two constantly interact with one another into what is his life. the way that other ideas of art are incorporated into our everyday lives and how everything we listen to, say or do interplays with one another, creating a new language for us; creating our lives.

“all of these are etched on my memory as the starting points for my style of mixing.” – dj spooky.

bombarding us with this idea of too much happening all the time, miller teaches us to differentiate and make this nonsensical mess into something our own: to remix it.

-matthew g. olin

Someone has given the bull on Wall Street a case of blue balls--literally.  Maybe I should mention that world-renown graffiti artist Banksy, has been in NYC lately putting up big installations...coincidental?  I think not...it seems like his kind of defiance...

If only I had had the money and ingenuity then that Banksy is showing with his new installation in New York - the Village Petstore and Charcoal Grill. With the benefit of fake food and robotic technology, he's been able to make fish fingers swimming around in a bowl, little chicken nuggets dipping themselves into barbecue sauce, and a languid leopard skin coat resting in a tree. Of course, my favorite pieces are the bologna logs enjoying sips of mustard as they sun themselves in their cages:

Actually, I think I may have eaten one of these fake hot dogs by accident last night instead of what I ordered at Weeneez, because something in my stomach is doing an awful lot of angry moaning today. I hope the batteries die soon.

"New Yorkers don't care about art, they care about pets. So I'm exhibiting them instead. I wanted to make art that questioned our relationship with animals and the ethics and sustainability of factory farming, but it ended up as chicken nuggets singing. I took all the money I made exploiting an animal in my last show and used it to fund a new show about the exploitation of animals. If its art and you can see it from the street, I guess it could still be considered street art."

God damn it. Banksy. That son of a bitch. So it's a big cluster-fuck of his work right now in New York City and we've all seen the billion story tall rats (in fact Mr. Spiral himself Ryan Dye showed you one) but now the man has hit me where I live.

This past Monday started out like any other Monday (rolling out of bed, popping a few Advil liqi-gels and making some tea). In the evening I met my wonderful friend Laura for some light strolling 'round my block and dinner. As we made our way south on Seventh Avenue we were stopped in our tracks with the matching exclamation of, "is that a fucking leopard?!" We had found ourselves in front of the "Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill."

Laura promptly whipped out her iPhone like it was a prison shank and we proceeded to google this anomaly. Nothing! And we all know if its not on the internet its not real. However, as of today (Friday) a google search yields 333,000 results.

Banksy has upped the ante and regardless of personal opinion, this is pretty extraordinary. Go check it out on 7^th Ave. between west 4^th and Bleeker and harass the uniformed staff. And hey you never know, I might be there too. K$

One of our favorite things about what Banksy has done is that the entire show is completely visible to the public both day and night through the store front windows. And unless you're a hard core Banksy fan, or until someone like us tells you, it's absolutely impossible to know that the work has been done by Banksy. There are no paintings or graffiti in the entire space.

(Via Wooster Collective.)

Seems like Banksy is setting up shop in New York. His first big impression on NY were the huge Rats he had painted in but now he's opened the "Village Pet Store And Charcoal Grill" in the West Village. The store contains animals like a rabbit looking into a vanity with pearls on, or little chick(en) nuggets on a farm, a hot dog feeding on mustard and CC cameras flocking. Very Very interesting.The store is located 89 7th Avenue and will open from 10am to Midnight, until October 31st. Be sure to stop by and check out this work of art

Check out the pics and the video

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]]> http://mcshuibhne.wordpress.com/?p=3464 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:04:33 +0000 mcshuibhne http://mcshuibhne.pt-br.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/arte-callejero-en-vigo/ Todos hablan de Banksy y algunos hablan de otros pocos artistas callejeros. Os muestro uno de los murales que más me han gustado en mis paseos entre asfalto y hormigón. Esta obra de arte forma parte del paisaje urbano de mi ciudad, Vigo, a la que he cambiado por Madrid, muy a pesar de mis sentimientos y de la morriña que tenemos impresa en el ADN los gallegos.

El graffiti se encuentra en una recóndita esquina en el centro de la ciudad, al final de una calle sin salida, la dedicada al Dr. Carlos Colmeiro Laforet.

Una obra que debiera ser preservada..., aunque me temo que será pasajera.

De visita obligada.

From Banksy:

“New Yorkers don’t care about art, they care about pets. So I’m exhibiting them instead. I wanted to make art that questioned our relationship with animals and the ethics and sustainability of factory farming, but it ended up as chicken nuggets singing. I took all the money I made exploiting an animal in my last show and used it to fund a new show about the exploitation of animals. If its art and you can see it from the street, I guess it could still be considered street art."

For more pics and info click below...

For the first time,  Banksy uses animantronics as opposed to his more traditional, graffiti style...

The show is now on display at 89 7th Avenue between West 4th and Bleeker Street in the West Village of New York City.  The inside of the "pet store" holds about 20 people but the majority of the displays are visible from outside.

Apparently we are duly shocked that he was

"educated at the £9,240-a-year Bristol Cathedral School, "

and that this

"will shock the artist’s fans, fond of their hero’s ‘anti-establishment’ stance."

Well... not really.

Banksy's Whacked-Out Pet Store
The first official show by notoriously reclusive art prankster Banksy is open for business. At the stand-alone Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill, such exotic species as robot monkeys, swimming fish sticks and chicken nuggets that dip themselves are on display. Bring your own lunch.

This is cool, love when they take out storefronts and make them into street attractions.  Looks a little disturbing, not for the veganarians out there.  But for those who remember, Banksy was British and was known for creating large scale and socially aware tags and art pieces on walls and other public spaces around the UK.  Soon he was known worldwide, and now he's at a pet store in the East Village.  Go get it.

Open 10am to midnight daily until Oct 31, 89 7th Ave South (between Bleecker and W. 4th St)

Haven't posted anything in a long time...but I thought this one might be worthwile and a good kick off into a new set of posts.

Thanks to a friend (Emmylou) as well as notcot.com I found this great piece of Banksy Art.

A few days ago Banksy opened up a walk-in piece of art. It's a small pet store located at 89 7th Avenue between West 4th and Bleeker Street in the West Village of New York City.

The stores windows and interior are filled with a number of creepy (animatronic) installations, from a rabbit applying make up, to two Chicken McNuggets feasting over some BBQ Sauce, up to a CCTV cam attending to it's little cam baby.

Here is a clip that gives you some more insights into the store...

Video: "BANKSY NYC Pet Store" - 1:03 min

Pretty creepy, but also pretty cool!

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(Source: notcot.com)

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Some call him the 'Scarlet Pimpernel' of the art world. And he's been at it again.

He's 'opened' the Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill in New York's West Village......

Set in a shopfront that Sweeney Todd would own if he were into animals, a rabbit paints its nails and chicken nuggets with feet feed from a dish of sauce.

Fish fingers swim in a bowl, hot dogs burrow and frolic in terrariums, CCTV cameras look after their young, and a bald, caged, suicidal-looking Tweety swings back and forth in his cage.......

Nothing is up for sale and the shop assistants are actors...

WHO IS BANKSY??????

En el número 89 de Séptima Avenida, en la West Village de Nueva York, ha abierto un nuevo comercio. Pero no es comercio cualquiera, se trata de la “Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill”, donde no encontraremos ni un solo graffiti ni pintura, tan sólo “animatronics”.

Según Banksy, a los neoyorquinos les trae sin cuidado el arte, tan sólo les interesan las mascotas. Por lo tanto, ha querido exhibirlas…pero se trata de una serie de mascotas tan peculiares como unos nuggets del McDonalds, unos Fingers del Kentucky Fried Chicken, unas cámaras de seguridad, etc.

El británico, con su nueva obra, pretende cuestionar la relación que tenemos los seres humanos con los animales y la supuesta ética y sostenibilidad de las industrias de animales, que hacen, por ejemplo, que una gallina acabe convertida en unos nuggets que cantan.

Parte de la exhibición de “mascotas” se puede ver desde la calle, a través del escaparate. Pero hasta el 31 de Octubre la tienda estará abierta de 10 de la mañana hasta medianoche. Así que, todos los afortunados que estéis en Nueva York…no desaprovechéis la ocasión de visitar la tienda.

Una vez más, la obra de Banksy es inigualable y no deja a nadie indiferente.