Banksy Strikes Again
English graffiti artist/culture jammer Banksy, who I first heard about from my main man Max Sidman hung pieces of his artwork, sans permission, in four New York museums: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, MOMA and the Brooklyn Museum. The first photos appeared at the Wooster Collective Web site
, where you can see photos of the work. The piece hung at the Natural History Museum was a beetle equipped with jet wings and missiles enclosed in a glass case.
Here is part of an interview with Banksy from the Wooster Collective Web site
, where you can see photos of the work. The piece hung at the Natural History Museum was a beetle equipped with jet wings and missiles enclosed in a glass case.
Here is part of an interview with Banksy from the Wooster Collective Web site
2. why did you choose the four you chose?
I went for the biggest four museums in New York, I wanted to do the
Guggenheim but there weren't enough paintings in it, I would have had to
appear between two Picasso's and I'm not good enough to get away with that.
6. how did you put up the works without being noticed by guards or
other visitors? was it easy?
As a graffiti artist its harder to paint subway trains in New York these
days than it is to paint your major public exhibition spaces.
You just have to glue on a fake beard and move with the times.
