"Banksy Versus Bristol Museum": Guerilla Art Exhibit in a Burned Out Ice Cream Van

Underground guerrilla artist Banksy put on an exhibit at the Bristol's City Museum and Art Gallery. Always looking to showcase and reaffirm his well-crafted reputation as a subversive artist, Banksy has installed his work at the Bristol's City Museum inside a giant burned out ice cream van.

The Telegraph.co.UK newspaper states, "The van, which sits under a giant melted cone, appears alongside dozens of sculptures, oil paintings and his trademark stencils.

The exhibition, called Banksy versus Bristol Museum, consists of more than 100 items, including a sculpture of a riot police officer astride a child's rocking horse and a moving display featuring chicks as chicken nuggets.

An original Damien Hirst painting has a giant stencil of a rat painted over it and part of Banksy's "Bog Henge" - an imitation of the Stonehenge circle made from portable toilets from the Glastonbury Festival - also appears.

A collapsed brick wall lies across the atrium's floor beneath dozens of stencilled subversive satirical and political messages."



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‘The people of Bristol have always been very good to me - I decided the best way to show my appreciation was by putting a bunch of old toilets and some live chicken nuggets in their museum…’ Banksy

The exhibit will run from 13 June- 31Aug
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"Crude Oil" - Banksy's Rat-Infested Gallery Exhibit

This is Banksy’s latest work called “Crude Oils” is an oil series installation that’s currently showing at a gallery in Britain.

“Madonna and iPod,” which is a parody--and social commentary--of Renaissance master Raphael’s “Madonna and Child.”

Jack Vettriano’s “Singing Butler” with oil barrels in the background.

“Show me the Monet,” which is a satirical adaptation of Monet’s “Water Lilies” series.

Ed Hopper’s “Nighthawke” parody featuring a man clad in boxers bearing the Union Jack and tossing a chair through the glass window of an establishment.

“Nighthawke” parody featuring a man clad in boxers bearing the Union Jack and tossing a chair through the glass window of an establishment.

Kate Moss transformed into iconic Marilyn Monroe.

The gallery was filled with rats scurrying around and scaring the shit outta people.












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Banksy's Latest Really Weird Work - The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill

This is the Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill that opened 4 days ago in New York City. However, there are no pets and no charcoal grill in here. Instead, what looks like a live leopard quietly lounges atop a tree branch, two McDonald Chicken MacNuggets sip barbecue sauce, a rabbit is putting on make-up in front of mirror and a CCTV camera takes care of her "offspring" and so on. Sounds crazy? The store which is open to the public everyday from 10 am until midnight, is the latest prank or--art installation if you prefer-- by the elusive British street artist Banksy. The "Pet Store" which will be open until Halloween day on October 31, is located at 89 7th Avenue between West 4th and Bleeker Street in the West Village.

























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The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill

The Many Incarnations of the Mona Lisa - From Dali to Banksy

Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa is arguably the world's most famous and renowned work of art and as such, it has been celebrated - as well as ridiculed - by just about everyone including world famous artists such as Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Rene Magritte, Fernando Botero, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Banksy and others.

A reader who signed in as "Anonymous" left the links for the three awesome Banksy images in a comment. Also, the clever and fun version of the Mona Lisa painted with peanut butter and jelly by Vik Muniz was a contribution from another (the same?) Anonymous. Thank you so much anonymous contributors!

Check out the various genial, fun and sometimes downright hilarious renditions of the world famous Gioconda.



Moona Lisa, Nick Walker


Fernando Botero, Mona Lisa, 1963


Salvador Dali, Self Portrait as Mona Lisa about 1964

Andy Warhol, Four Mona Lisas, 1963

Mao Lisa, Leonardo Bezzola, 1976

George and Mona in the Baths of Coloma Robert Arneson, 1976

Figure 7 Jasper Johns, 1968

Thirty Are Better Than One Andy Warhol, 1963

David Teixidor Buenaventura, Gioconda, 2001

Kazimir Malevich, Composition with Mona Lisa, 1914

Erro, American Project, 1958

Yasumasa Morimura Mona Lisa in the Third Place, 1998

Rene Magritte, La Gioconda, 1960

Daniel Spoerri, Use of Rembrandt as Ironing Board (Marcel Duchamp),1964

Andy Warhol, Mona Lisa, 1963

Fernando Botero, Mona Lisa, Age Twelve, 1959

Alfred Gescheidt, Mamary Lisa, 1972

Fernand Leger, Mona Lisa with Keys, 1930

Pneumonia Lisa Robert Rauschenberg, 1982

William T. Wiley, Mona Lisa Wiped Out, 1967

Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q., readymade, 1919

Robert Rauschenberg, Mona Lisa, 1982

Jean Michel Basquiat, Mona Lisa, n/a

Sophie Matisse, Mona Lisa, 1997

Miran Fukuda, Resting Model, 1999

Andy Warhol, Mona Lisa (Two Times), 1980

Keith Haring, Apocalipse 7, 1988

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Mona Lisa Mujaheddin by Banksy

Peanut Butter and Jelly Mona Lisa by Vik Muniz
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We are happy to announce that "The Many Incarnations of the Mona Lisa" post was published by British newspaper Telegraph.UK. here. Thanks a lot to the "Anonymous" contributors.