Showing posts with label Banksy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Banksy. Show all posts

Friday, November 1, 2013

"Bronx Zoo" By Banksy ("Better Out Than In" Day 30)




The penultimate piece by the elusive artist Banksy in his month-long residency in New York City streets is "Bronx Zoo." It is a graffiti painting of a growling wild cat resting on a railing, across the road from the Yankee Stadium. The wild cat is sitting on a pre-existing yellow painted line on a blue wall, located across the road from the New York Yankees stadium. The wild cat has markings are made up of graffiti scrawl and various protest symbols, including the famous Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). It's entitled "Bronx Zoo", it has been suggested the name is a pun on a nickname acquired by the baseball team nearly 40 years ago. The Yankees were referred to as the Bronx Zoo, because of the fighting between George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson. The street art is located at the junction of East 162nd Street and Jerome Avenue. It is part of Banksy's "Better Out Than In" exhibit, in which the artist left his works scattered across the five boroughs, drawing huge crowds, as well as vandals. Each day of October, Banksy unveiled new works of art around New York. The works were then announced on his website and posted to Instagram. 

Monday, October 21, 2013

Banksy Continues to Captivate Street Art Fans with "Hammer Boy" on Manhattan's Upper West Side


Banksy, the mysterious British street artist painted the silhouette of a young boy swinging a sledge hammer yesterday, on day 20 of his month-long residency in New York City. The silhouette is strategically placed next to a red standpipe, creating an illusion that the boy is going to smash it. Banksy's work continues to captivate a loyal segment of the young, fun, art-loving New Yorkers who are eager to find where his next work will pop up. "Hammer boy" art is located on the wall of a DSW store at 79th Street between Amsterdam and Broadway. Many fans posed for photos next to the artwork.

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Banksy's Japanese-Themed Street Art in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on Day 17 of "Better Out Than In"

Street art aficionados flocked to Williamsburg, Brooklyn today to see the British-born artist, Bansky's latest stencil. The piece shows two silhouetted Geisha girls meeting at a "bridge" which is actually a curved section of the building's façade at Cook Street near Graham Avenue. A small bonsai tree sprouts at one end of the "bridge". Today marks Day 17 of Banksy's "residency" on the streets of New York, which he's dubbed "Better Out Than In." Banksy has set up a residence on the streets of New York for the month of October, unveiling one piece of art a day, which fans can follow on a website.

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Banksy's Street Art in New York City


Artworks created by the mysterious British street artist Banksy have been appearing in various locations in the city after he announed a a month-long residency in New York City. Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti using a distinctive stencilling technique. His artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world. Banksy’s artwork, when removed from its always pre-existing urban settings, has sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars at auctions. The artist has not shown his face or revealed his identity, aside from a shadowed interview in which his voice was altered in the award-winning biographical documentary, "Exit Through the Gift Shop." Some of the pieces created here in New York City include "Concrete Confessional" in the East Village and a truck filled with stuffed animals with amplified toy animal noises called "Sirens of the Lambs" to highlight animal cruelty and factory farming.