NEWS: Man Sneaks Paintings INTO New York Museums

CULTURE: Man Sneaks Paintings INTO New York Museums

In what authorities are describing as "an art crime in reverse," the elusive artist known only as "Banksy" has admitted to smuggling his works into four prestigious NYC museums, reports the Wooster Collective art site:

The Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Museum of Natural History were the recipients of these unusual "gifts."

While the staff at the Met discovered & removed the offending art the next morning, Banksy's work hung in the MoMA for three days before being pulled.

As of this writing, the pieces in the Brooklyn Museum & Museum of Natural History are still on display.

Banksy fucking rocks...hardcore

beautiful

That's way better than nearly all of the installation art in MoMA. They should leave it.

this man is my new God!!!


TKS

I read about that, and I think it's awesome.

There's no better publicity than shit like this. I love it.

This is fucking amazing, a new breed of art for the modern day.

fucking badass

Wow, complete respect to that man!

Banksy has done lots of grafitti art on the derelict buildings in China town in Liverpool, and it's really great.

Smuggling those paintings in is a stroke of genius though, hats off to the guy!

Last time I was at the Museum of Natural History it didn't have art anywhere, except maybe like old native american and cave drawings and stuff.

Wait just visited the guy's site. Nevermind.

[Edited on Mar 25, 2005 by RockRBoy]

Just when you think it's all been done before, this give me a renewed hope.

That's great... I was even at the met on Weds.

now there's a man who lives his art.
I'm up for more of this kind of news.

This guy is one of my favorite enw artists.

I love banksy. Not so sure about his statue thing, but the rest of it is really cool.

ya balls of brass

this is BRILLIANT!

I had thought of this just as I was posting it, and I'm thankful that you responded, as you're smarter than the average bear. I've been an airhead today (to say the least).

So when are we going to see your posters at the museum?

Awesome. Glad people are still trying to challenge attitudes with their art.

part of me thinks it's really self diluted and pretentious and another part loves the idea.