Banksy, the UK-based artist and street artist, has an installation in New York right now in a storefront in Greenwich Village.
It'll be open to the public daily through Oct. 31.
The NY Times describes it as following:
It'll be open to the public daily through Oct. 31.
The NY Times describes it as following:
“Open for Pet Supplies/Rare Breeds/Mechanically retrieved meat” says a sign in front of the shop. Bales of hay dot the sidewalk, along with a kiddie dolphin ride, wrapped in a fishing net like the day’s catch. But it is the leopard in one of the storefront windows that stops passers-by first. “Is that — real?” a woman asked on Wednesday, peering at a large furry object perched on a tree branch, its tail swinging.
It’s not: it is an ingeniously arranged fake fur coat. The robot monkey is more lifelike: it sits, breathing, in a cage inside the store, wearing headphones, holding a remote and watching a television clip of some fellow monkeys in an amorous moment.
A rabbit wearing a pearl necklace files her nails in a window; the coop in the next one has chicken nuggets with legs, busily dipping themselves in sauce.
More videos of the installation available on the Village Petstore and Charcoal Grill website.
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