Blog Moment: Museum-Quality Art & Performance Anthropology

[prosicated]

Wooser Collective: Banksy Hits New York's Most Famous Museums
Wooster Collective: Outtakes from the NYTimes Article
Cool Hunting: Banksy hits NYC
Banksy: Current Exhibitions
NYTimes: Need Talent to Exhibit in Museums? Not This Prankster

Banksy installed art in:
The Met's American Painting Wing: "You Have Beautiful Eyes"
MoMA's 3rd Floor: "Discount Soup Can"
Brooklyn Museum of Art's Historical Painting Wing: "Give Peace a Chance"
Museum of Natural History's Hall of Bio Diversity: "Withus Oragainstus"

Banksy, a fictional character and public artist, dressed as a harmless old gent, carried his art and signage into 4 major New York City museums, and hung his works on the wall. This work was documented by a collaborator with a camera, and it appears that he encountered no trouble. As of yesterday afternoon, only the pieces at the Met and MoMA had been removed, though I expect the other ones will be down quickly as news of this spreads.

(Wooster Collective has an RSS feed on LJ, for those of you who are interested, at woosterfeed, and Cool Hunting is also a feed, at joshrubin_feed.)

Comments

[inahandbasket]

how very cool

[prosicated.livejournal.com]

He's been doing it for ages, I think. I ran into his work when I was doing a project on public art and graffiti, but I had forgotten about him again until now!

[inahandbasket]

yeah, right up your performance-art alley.
*hugs*
I remembered to take my tea out on time this morning! waiting for it to cool as I type. *glee*