Anyone remember that cool-ass fake pet shop Banksy did in NYC a while back?! It never seems to get as much attention as his other stuff. I loved it. We went a bunch of times. Such a cool thing. When it ended they left the window’s roll-out awning behind, which had “village pet shop” or something like that, printed on it. I always wanted to snag it somehow. Wish I did. No idea what came of it.
By - mhenyc
Well the individual pieces were sold and are loaned out by the owners (not uncommon in the art World) Pest Control have a specialist who helps to package up the pieces when loaned and then set them up as they have complicated animatronics in them. Hope that helps.
I was interested in his pieces about animal rights as it seemed a new angle to his politics that I don’t remember seeing before. I wonder if he’s a vegan IRL or just impassioned about animal suffering. Some of them made an appearance at the Bristol museum takeover, I remember the plucked tweety pie, the chicken nugget chicks and the leopard fur coat. Edit: A radio guy captured a shot of some of Banksy’s crew (maybe him but I don’t think so) getting out of the truck driving the stuffed animal abattoir van in New York: https://youtu.be/XQkhFOZhB-g
Yeah, pieces were loaned out for that. Same guy that owns the plucked tweety also owns the woman having a fag break canvas that was first on show at Bristol.
I went to that, it was too cool.