In the New York Times this morning: a complete story about the whatever it is — graffiti, installation, crowd gatherer… that I wrote about in my last post. We passed the one on the Upper West Side several times a day. Bob joked about how it doesn’t take much to draw a crowd in New York City. “Ours,” pictured in the last post, is titled “day at the fair” — OK now I get it. Here is the whole story with a slide show of others and the controversy — Artist’s work pops up daily. Reviews vary by Borough. click to read all about it.
I loved it, both our baffling experience and finding out the whole story. This is why I love to travel.
Just heard the NPR story on this driving to work, very interesting. Cool that you saw a real Banksy!
http://www.npr.org/2013/10/31/242028452/art-or-act-banksys-reviews-are-mixed
I just saw this comment from you, Cully and listened to the NPR program… it was so neat and such a New York experience to have been there and seen it — I think you and Mark would like “Exit through the Gift Shop” by Bansky – streaming netflix.