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Banksy NYC Art Day #20: Boy, Sledge Hammer, Fire Alarm

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Day #20 of Banksy’s “Better Out Than In” brings us this new piece, located in New York’s Upper West Side, done in the now classic Banksy silhouette style. No audio guide. Enjoy, if you can.

 

If you missed my previous Banksy posts, here’s an easy way to check them out: Day one, day two, day three, day four, day five, day six, day seven, day eight, day nine, day ten, day 11, day 12, day 13, day 14, day 15, day 16, day 17, day 18, day 19. Plus: “A Consideration Of The Politics Of Banksy’s Syria Video,” “Source For Banksy’s ‘Concrete Confessional’ Revealed,” and “Banksy Update: NYC Mayor Attacks Street Artist.”

Banksy NYC Art Day #19: Ants Going For The Honey, Baby

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For Day #19 of Banksy’s “Better Out Than in” the artist has uploaded a video of ants chaotically running around a crack in a wall (or maybe it’s on the ground).

The camera eventually pulls back to reveal the partial outline of a woman’s body, with the crack strategically located, making this piece, located on Staten Island, a potential spoof of Gustave Courbet’s 1866 “L’Origine du monde.” Then again, perhaps Banksy is commenting on the reaction in NYC to his art. Or to anything that gets media attention. Or not.

If you missed my previous Banksy posts, here’s an easy way to check them out: Day one, day two, day three, day four, day five, day six, day seven, day eight, day nine, day ten, day 11, day 12, day 13, day 14, day 15, day 16, day 17, day 18. Plus: “A Consideration Of The Politics Of Banksy’s Syria Video,” “Source For Banksy’s ‘Concrete Confessional’ Revealed,” and “Banksy Update: NYC Mayor Attacks Street Artist.”

Banksy NYC ART Day #18: Two Collaborations With Os Gemeos

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For Day #18 of Banksy’s “Better Out Than In” New York street exhibit the artist is showing two collaborations he made with Brazilian artists Os Gemeos, on West 24th Street, between 10th and 11th avenues.

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Today (Oct. 18, 2013) on his website Banksy writes:

“Are you the sort of person who enjoys going to art galleries, but wished they had more gravel in them? Then this temporary exhibition space is for you. Housing just two paintings but also featuring a bench, some carpet and complimentary refreshments. Opens today through Sunday 11am til midnight.”

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Banksy has also included audio about today’s art:

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If you missed my previous Banksy posts, here’s an easy way to check them out: Day one, day two, day three, day four, day five, day six, day seven, day eight, day nine, day ten, day 11, day 12, day 13, day 14, day 15, day 16, day 17. Plus: “A Consideration Of The Politics Of Banksy’s Syria Video,” “Source For Banksy’s ‘Concrete Confessional’ Revealed,” and “Banksy Update: NYC Mayor Attacks Street Artist.”

At the bottom of Banksy’s Oct. 18 post on his website he writes:

People ask why I want to have an exhibition in the streets, but have you been to an art gallery recently? They’re full.

And finally, the owner of the building that Banksy stenciled yesterday (Oct. 17, 2013) has an article, “I’m the Accidental Owner of a Banksy,” that you can read here.

Banksy Update: NYC Mayor Attacks Street Artist

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With a front page headline screaming “Get Banksy!” the New York Post reports that police are on the lookout for the world famous graffiti artist.

“Law enforcement sources have told The Post Banksy will be charged with vandalism if he’s found scribbling his stencils on city walls,” The Post reports.

But the Daily News in New York reports that police are not actively looking for Banksy.

“It is graffiti, so if someone complained about it, members of the Vandals Unit would investigate,” a police source told the Daily New. “I haven’t heard of anyone complaining.”

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg calls Banksy a vandal, not an artist.

“Graffiti does ruin people’s property and is a sign of decay and a loss of control,” Bloomberg said yesterday (Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2013).

“Art is art, and nobody’s a bigger supporter of the arts than I am,” he continued. “I just think there are some places for art, and there are some places [for] no art. You running up to someone’s property or public property and defacing it is not my definition of art.”

Now if I was Banksy, I’d be quite happy to have the Mayor of New York talking about me. How cool is that. Banksy as Batman?

Banksy NYC Art Day #17: In The Shadows

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On his site, under the above image, Banksy writes: “I don’t read what i believe in the papers.”

If you missed my previous Banksy posts, here’s an easy way to check them out: Day one, day two, day three, day four, day five, day six, day seven, day eight, day nine, day ten, day 11, day 12, day 13, day 14, day 15, day 16. Plus: “A Consideration Of The Politics Of Banksy’s Syria Video” and “Source For Banksy’s “Concrete Confessional” Revealed.”

Banksy NYC Art Day #16: The Artist Takes On McDonald’s (& Jeff Koons)

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Banksy describes today’s art piece on his website as: “A fibreglass replica of Ronald McDonald having his shoes shined by a real live boy. The sculpture will visit the sidewalk outside a different McDonalds every lunchtime for the next week. Today: South Bronx.”

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There’s also an audio guide for today’s art. You’ll enjoy it.


If you missed my previous Banksy posts, here’s an easy way to check them out: Day one, day two, day three, day four, day five, day six, day seven, day eight, day nine, day ten, day 11, day 12, day 13, day 14, day 15. Plus: “A Consideration Of The Politics Of Banksy’s Syria Video” and “Source For Banksy’s “Concrete Confessional” Revealed.”

Banksy NYC Art Day #14: Low Brow?

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Another day another Banksy. This month is truly an overflow of riches. No way to predict what Banksy will do before he does it.

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On his website Banksy writes:

Some people criticize me for using sources that are a bit low brow (this quote is from ‘Gladiator’) but you know what? “I’m just going to use that hostility to make me stronger, not weaker” as Kelly Rowland said on the X Factor.

Banksy Tries (And Mostly Fails) To Sell Original Banksy Art In Central Park

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The mysterious street artist Banksy says he set up a stall in Central Park yesterday, October 12, 2013, and with original signed Banksy art for sale at $60 a piece and had few takers.

That’s insane.

Hey Banksy, I’m in California, but if I’d been in NYC and seen your stall I’d have bought some of the pieces. A few years ago I was at Venice Beach and someone had a stall with t-shirts with some of your art on them and some small canvases with your art on them as well and they looked great and I bought a t-shirt and two of the pieces, which I dig the most.

Feel free to contact me if you want to unload some of those unsold canvases.

Anyway, here’s what’s on Banksy’s website:

Yesterday I set up a stall in the park selling 100% authentic original signed Banksy canvases.
For $60 each.

The artist also says:

Please note: This was a one off. The stall will not be there again today.

Source For Banksy’s “Concrete Confessional” Revealed

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Original photo taken in the ’50s overlaid with Banksy’s “Concrete Confessional.

Check this out. On the Animal blog, we learn:

“Antigrav appears to have tracked down the source image for this stencil [“Concrete Confessioinal”].

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“Concrete Confessional” by Banksy.

The [black and white] photo was shot by famed lensman Berni Schoenfield in the 1950s and was posted as the “Photograph of the Day” by The Telegraph in 2009. According to the paper, it depicts a Jesuit priest at the Martyr’s Shrine in Ontario:

Taken in 1955, near Midland in Ontario, this photograph shows a Jesuit priest hearing confession at a site commemorating the first missionaries in Huron county. They arrived in 1626 intending to convert the Iriquois but were martyred ten years later.