OCTOBER 2013. New York City, NY
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK STREET ART: MY MONTH WITH BANKSY: “OS GEMEOS COLLABORATION (BANKSY WITHIN)”
OCTOBER 2013. New York City, NY
Category: Better Out Than In
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK STREET ART: MY MONTH WITH BANKSY: “GEISHA SILHOUETTES”
BRONX, NEW YORK STREET ART: MY MONTH WITH BANKSY ~ “SHOE SHINE”
Here are some pics from two Bronx locations today.
From untappedcities.com:
For Day 16, Banksy has created a fiberglass replica of a sad Ronald McDonald having his shoes shined by a real person outside a McDonald’s in the South Bronx. According to Banksy’s website, “The sculpture will visit the sidewalk outside a different McDonalds every lunchtime for the next week.”
The accompanying audio guide says “Ronald [is] arguably the most sculpted figure in history after Christ” The sculpture is “a critique of the heavy labor required to sustain the polished image of mega-corporation…Does this era have feet of clay and a massively large footprint to boot?”
The narrator also notes that the face is actually of the Greek God Hermes.
from wiki:
In some myths Hermes is a trickster, and outwits other gods for his own satisfaction or the sake of humankind.
16OCT13. The Bronx, NYC.
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK STREET ART: MY MONTH WITH BANKSY ~ VILLAGE VOICE COVER
I just happened to have walked past two Village Voices on the street on Monday and picked them up. It’s two of the same cover. Here’s the story from highsnobiety.com:
The Village Voice ‘Banksy’ Issue – Banksy x Os Gemeos Cover Art
Local New York news magazine The Village Voice of course had to pick up on the current Banksy street exhibition “Better Out Than In.” Rather than simply reporting about the ongoing art exhibit and letting people know about the best tours to see all artworks, the magazine has produced a special ‘Banksy’ issue with a great cover and an in-depth interview with Banksy. The cover art was done by Banksy and Brazilian artists Os Gemeos. There are two covers and the two artworks seen on the covers will actually be rolled out later this month as part of the exhibition. Of course we do not know when yet. The magazine came out this week and as you can imagine is highly sought-after already on eBay, going for $20 USD and more.
14OCT13. New York City.
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK STREET ART: MY MONTH WITH BANKSY ~ “CONCRETE CONFESSIONAL”
12OCT13. East Village, NYC.
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK STREET ART: MY MONTH WITH BANKSY ~ “GRAFFITI IS A CRIME”
Here is the first Banksy piece of the NYC October 2013 Residency. You can see that it was whitewashed over. Allen Street.
9OCT13. Lower East Side, NYC.
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK STREET ART: MY MONTH WITH BANKSY ~ “CRAZY HORSES ATTACK!”
The accompanying audio—which is not on his 1-800 number yet, but is on his website—comes from the audio recording of an attack on Iraqi civilians in Baghdad in 2007 that was given by Chelsea Manning to Wikileaks. The callsigns of the two Apache helicopters involved in the attack were “Crazyhorse 1/8” and “Crazyhorse 1/9.” At least 12 people were killed in the attack, including two journalists working for Reuters, and 2 children were wounded. One of the American soldiers involved can be heard remarking, “Well, it’s their fault for bringing kids into a battle.”- From THE GOTHAMIST.COM
9OCT13. Lower East Side, NYC.
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK STREET ART: MY MONTH WITH BANKSY ~ GRAFFITI IS OFFICIALLY “LEGAL” TODAY
7OCT13. Red Hook, Brooklyn, NYC.
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK STREET ART: MY MONTH WITH BANKSY ~ “THIS IS MY NEW YORK ACCENT”
“Hello, and welcome to Lower Manhattan,” the message begins, as elevator music plays. “Before you, you will see a ‘spray art’ by the artist Ban-sky. Or maybe not; it’s probably been painted over by now.”
This is the latest foray into street art by Banksy, the elusive British artist, and it is perhaps the most public and expansive of his works, taking over not just a patch of sidewalk or a shop wall but a whole city. Titled “Better Out Than In,” the exhibit was announced in his usual mysterious, pop-up fashion. For more of the story: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/banksy-announces-a-monthlong-show-on-the-streets-of-new-york/?_r=0
2OCT13. West 25th St between 10th & 11th. Manhattan, NYC.
