Today’s Banksy in Bed-Study uses an architectural detail from an existing building to double as a bridge, the work features two Japanese-attired women and a Bonzai like tree. Just some fun facts: the traditional japanese dress, shown here is called a kimono and the wide sash in the back is called an obi.
On Banksy’s website, he also includes a copy of the NY Post cover claiming the NYPD is hunting him down, with an accompanying line “I don’t believe what I read in the papers.”
Banksy has certainly given New Yorkers quite an adventure in his month-long residency in NYC. Besides the daily pieces (which often suffer paintovers rather quickly), there are the roving trucks like “Sirens of the Lambs” and “Mobile Waterfall” which are touring the city for part or all of the month. Then there’s yesterday’s McDonald’s sculpture with a live shoe shiner, which will be going around daily for two weeks to a different McDonald’s in the city. Yesterday, while construction workers took the initiative to protect “Concrete Confessional” in the East Village with plexiglass, Mayor Bloomberg was putting in his two cents about the Banksification of NYC.
“I’ll leave it up to our Department of Cultural Affairs but look, graffiti does ruin people’s property and it’s a sign of decay and loss of control…Art is art and nobody’s a bigger supporter of the arts than I am. I just think there are some places for art and there are some places [not for] art. And you running up to somebody’s property or public property and defacing it is not my definition of art. Or it may be art, but it should not be permitted. And I think that’s exactly what the law says.”
Michelle is the founder of Untapped New York and the author of The Art Spy (HarperOne, forthcoming) Secret Brooklyn, Secret New York Hidden Bars & Restaurants, and Broadway. michelleyoungwriter.com
