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Wooster Collective: Some Work By Banksy The You May Not Have Seen Before
Bonhams will host its fall Post War and Contemporary Art and Design auction next Wednesday, Sept. 23. We are particularly interested in this 2007 Jose Parla painting estimated at £25,000 – 35,000. The mixed media on board piece measures 48 1/16 x 72 7/16 in. with provenance viaChristina Grajalaes Gallery in NY, where Parla presented his Layered Days exhibit late last year.
Also up for sale is this 2002 Banksy original canvas measuring 23 5/8 x 19 11/16 in., estimated at £25,000 – 35,000.
the art collectors » Bonhams Post War + Contemporary Auction to feature Parla, Banksy
Ja Pay, 2009 is one of several collaborative works created by artist Peter Harris and musician Lee Scratch Perry that will be on display at the Higher Power art show on Sept. 10 in London.
This September marks three years since Banksy captured the art world’s attention with Barely Legal, the now legendary three-day Los Angeles warehouse show, whose location was not disclosed until opening day. Looking back, its as if the exhibit’s mammoth success spawned the beginning of pop-up art show mania. What was once regarded as a guerilla marketing move used by street-hip artists and dealers a few years ago is quickly catching on. In the past few years, companies like Nike, Scion and Campari have been particularly adept at promoting their brands to young audiences and tastemakers by using such art-events.
Yet, while pop-up galleries – temporary art shows held in vacant commercial spaces – are now a mainstream marketing tactic, they may quickly become a financial necessity in a shaken economy, where both the real estate and art markets have been dramatically impacted.
Earlier this summer, Ad Hoc Art partnered with community development organization, Metrotech BID, to transform a vacant Brooklyn, NY block into a storefront gallery of street art, inviting 15 artists including Chris Stain,Greg Lamarche, Lady Pink and Logan Hicks to create site specific installations in the windows of former businesses. (Its worth noting Ad Hoc has since announced its closing, joining a growing list of galleries who have been unable to fight off the recession)
(Via the art collectors » Pop-Up Art :: Street Cool, Turned Economic Tool)
Pictures on Walls announced today the upcoming release of Donuts by Banksy, a new screen print measuring 30 x 22 inches, available in “strawberry” and chocolate” editions of 299 per color, and priced at £465. In a somewhat egalitarian approach, P.O.W. has set up a new lottery system that will randomly select winners from a pool of registered eligible buyers. Registration is open now through 12pm London time on July 28, so start calling all your friends to have them sign up on your behalf.
Image: Bristol Evening Post
The Bristol Evening Post reports that one of the city’s most well known Banksy murals was hit by paintball vandals earlier this week. The piece has been protected by the Bristol City Council since 2006, when a public vote revealed that over 90% of respondents were in favor of conserving it. The act is an obvious retaliation against the artist’s current high profile exhibit at the Bristol Museumand comes just two months after another Bristol Banksy was defaced. When will the haters realize these antics only drum up more publicity?
Today, Banksy unveiled the secret show he had eluded to on his website earlier this week. The artist’s largest exhibit to date, Banksy Versus Bristol Museum, opens to the public in his hometown at the City Museum and Art Gallery. The show features over 70 new works, as well as some familiar ones, including animatronics that were first seen at Banksy’s Village Pet Shop in New York last year. “This is the first show I’ve done where taxpayers’ money is being used to hang my pictures up rather than scrape them off,” said the artist in a statement (AP). The show is free and runs through August 31. In the meantime, check out the video tour below, and see more pics via BBC
Banksy confirms the recent rumor mill. A new show will open June 13. No other details yet, but all logical guesses point toward Bristol.
“ 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. ”
I had (selfishly) hoped to wait until I dug my claws into this before spreading the word. However, then a little publication called the New York Times went and ruined that plan…
The rumors are true: Banksy is — or was, or has been — in town, and he’s doing more than just painting, or hiding.
This one is not a mural but an installation: a mock pet supply shop, filled with animatronic creatures like a rhesus monkey and would-be creatures like fish sticks swimming in a tank. The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill, as the green awning reads, is Banksy’s first official exhibition in New York, his representatives say, and it will be open to the public daily through Oct. 31.
“I wanted to make art that questioned our relationship with animals and the ethics and sustainability of factory farming,” Banksy said in a statement distributed by a publicist, “but it ended up as chicken nuggets singing.”
Wooster Collective: Banksy’s Road Trip Continues: Takes On The KKK In Birmingham, Alabama
After leaving New Orleans, it appears that Banksy is now heading through the Deep South.
The piece below was spotted on an old abandoned Chevron Station near Birmingham Alabama. (We’re told it’s somewhere between where the 59 Feeway meets the 65 going South near a large Home Depot on the 59)
(Note: As of now, the one photo below is all that we have, so if you’re in the area and see the piece, let us know and send us some snaps)