Dressed as a British pensioner, contemporary artist Banksy has installed four pieces of his art in New York’s most prestigious museums: The
Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern
Art, and the Museum of Natural History. He entered each of the galleries and attached one of his own works,
complete with authoritative name plaque and explanation.
He
told the Wooster Collective,
"This historic occasion has less to do with finally being
embraced by the fine art establishment and is more about the judicious
use of a fake beard and some high strength glue….[my art is] good enough to be in there, so I don’t see why I should wait!"
Staff
at the New York Met discovered and removed their new acquisition early
Sunday morning while Banksy’s discount soup can print took pride of
place in the MoMA for over three days before being torn down.
As of now, the other two pieces currently remain firmly in place…
Wooster Collective Report
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NPR has a nice interview with Banksy.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4559961
March 24th, 2005 at 7:00 pm
I also heard the interview on NPR. After readng the article I found it very interesting. I fear that in the future we will be seeing more people trying to imitate what this artist has done. The problem, I fear, will be that the imitations will not be as sly and as respectful of the other artwork hanging in the galleries.
March 25th, 2005 at 1:36 am
I have a website where I post new graffiti pictures. I was in New York a while back and I got a bunch of Banksy pictures. I will post them on the site soon if you guys are interested.
I will post the pictures here:
http://www.ctcmagazine.com/graffiti.html
Jude
ctcmagazine.com
June 17th, 2005 at 3:39 pm
Looks like Banksy has struck again. This time he did it with the help of Danger Mouse and Paris Hilton. Click here for more info:
http://www.ctcmagazine.com/banksy-paris-prank.html
September 8th, 2006 at 1:01 pm