Saturday Night Live is back with a vengence this year. And it isn't just Tina Fey and her Sarah Palin send-ups that are working. This is classic SNL in rare form--- from the writing to the casting-- to the great musical performances. DVR time...
He's a genius. So simple. So smart. He did this "pop-up" street art installation--- which poses as a innocent pet store on 89 7th Avenue between West 4th and Bleeker Street in the West Village of New York City. It is a populist's
version of Damien Hirst's exhibition at the Seagrams Building(Lever House) last
year. Banks is pushing it to another level! The concept speaks for itself. And the tension of who he is, and how he pulled this off really represents what is in the air for street art....and where it can and will go.
From Banksy:
“New Yorkers don’t care about art, they care about pets. So I’m
exhibiting them instead. I wanted to make art that questioned our
relationship with animals and the ethics and sustainability of factory
farming, but it ended up as chicken nuggets singing. I took all the
money I made exploiting an animal in my last show and used it to fund a
new show about the exploitation of animals. If its art and you can see
it from the street, I guess it could still be considered street art."
Warning-- MEN: unless you are at Outside lands or Bonaroo---Birkenstocks should never be worn in public urban settings. Prepare to get beat down. Men's Vogue got this one wrong...
I don't care that they have a Gucci print on it---it won't fix the core problem. For the record, the images above are in fact the feet of MEN.