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
Tag: 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 ~ “TWIN TOWERS FLOWER EXPLOSION”
Depicted below in my customary varied films perspective (Hipstamatic on iPAD) is the newest piece from Banksy, located on Staple Street in Tribeca. Here is a stencil of the Twin Towers with what appears to be a Dahlia sticking out of it. The dahlia seems to represent the first explosion on 09/11/01, plus flowers generally symbolize hope. From a website on flowers and meanings, it says this about the dahlia:
Dahlia’s are spicy flowers, and their meanings range from a sign of warning, to change, to travel, to even a portent of betrayal. The varied symbolic meanings of the dahlia make this flower a wild card.
15OCT13. Tribeca, NYC.
QUEENS, NEW YORK STREET ART: MY MONTH WITH BANKSY ~ “WHAT WE DO IN LIFE ECHOES IN ETERNITY”
Banksy’s newest piece uses a quote from the movie, “Gladiator.” I definitely think this piece is directed towards the taggers, bombers, and haters of his residency thus far. You have a guy wiping away the paint, besmirching the image. And the line reads as something quite karmic, if you ask me. Banksy’s telling these guys (and all Banksy haters) that their destructive ways will manifest for eternity. What’s in your soul now, will be in your soul forever.
14OCT13. Queens, NYC.
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 ~ “HEY BEAV! THE BEAVER…”
Turns out, yesterday’s site was just a little too dangerous and sketchy to be hanging around for any long period of time. I was going to go, but I kept getting reports from trusted sources that it would be a wasted trip. For the first time in Banksy’s NYC residency, there were actually two guys (not associated with him) that were covering the beaver with cardboard and making people pay to snap pictures! From what I hear, in that neighborhood, you don’t argue with such an arrangement. I would have been furious, though, so it’s good that I didn’t go. Reports also came out that two guys unsuccessfully tried to hammer the beaver out of the wall, did some damage to it, but finally gave up when they realized they just didn’t have the proper tools. Here are three photos taken live on the scene by Jermaine Bell (can’t thank him enough!)
10OCT13. Brooklyn, 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.
CELEBRITIES: DUFF McKAGAN (GUNS N’ ROSES)
Duff attending the CBGB Music Festival in the Lower East Side, but before that, he walked over to check out the Banksy. Lookin’ good!
9OCT13. Lower East Side, NYC.