Urban Graffiti Artist Banksy Opens a Pet Shop

When I heard that the controversial Banksy had opened a pet shop, I just couldn’t believe it.
Was there going to be some guy in a ski mask selling rats and cuddly rabbits, or was he just cutting the ribbon at an opening ceremony and would his anonymous cover be blown?
I needn’t have worried. It turned out to be his first official exhibition in New York, at "The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill, in Manhattan".
The well known Graffiti artist who now sells his studio works for hundreds of thousands of dollars, to people such as Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Dennis Hopper, described the fake pet shop as being about "our relationship with animals and the ethics and sustainability of factory farming".
The works in his exhibition are all three dimensional animatronics, and can be seen through the windows of the store.......

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Banksy: How to Make Millions with Spraycan and Stencil

The studio work.

The “urban graffiti” artist known only as Banksy is renowned for his street art. With his recognisable stencils and slogans adorning the walls of public buildings, his works are known for their humour and social and political comment.
There is however another side to Banksy: that of the studio artist.

The stencils are still a favoured medium, and several are recognisable as those used in some of his outdoor work......

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Banksy in Bethlehem: Art and the Barrier Between Two Nations

Banksy visit to the West Bank brought up a string of controversy, on both sides. His art, however, remains appropriately controversial and intriguing.

His art always makes a not-so-subtle social statement. His rats, perhaps, representing the “rat race” of modern society.
To any graffiti artist, an unadorned wall takes on the temptation of an artist’s easel.
When Israel built the controversial 436 mile long security barrier to separate itself from the Palestinian Authority controlled areas, they might as well have sent out an invitation to Banksy at the same time!
He is quoted by The Mail Online as saying: “The segregation wall is a disgrace…The possibility I find exciting is that you could turn the world’s most invasive and degrading structure into the world’s longest gallery of free speech and bad art.” A UK television station, Channel 4, ran a news item quoting Banksy’s attitude to the wall: “It turns Palestine into the world’s largest open prison,” and described the wall as “the ultimate Graffiti Artists’ holiday destination.”
His art is unquestionably intriguing.
So with this huge canvas available, Banksy took his “holiday” in 2005.......

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Urban Graffiti as Art: Banksy

The work of the British urban guerrilla artist known only as Banksy.

To many the sight of an urban wall scrawled with graffiti is an eyesore and depressing. It purports a careless society. It reminds us of vandalism and thugs on the streets.But what if the graffiti was intelligent art, thought provoking art or just plain funny? Such is the work of the British urban guerrilla artist known only as Banksy.
Banksy is thought to have first appeared in Bristol, his works are usually of layered stencil .One of his commonest images is of rats.Sometimes by adding them to an existing notice or object, what is plain and uninteresting becomes amusing.......

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