How to get your art shown in famous NYC museums
24 March 2005 | filed under Arts & MusicNotorious UK street artist Banksy now boasts Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Natural History and MoMA in his list of current exhibitions. Thing is his work wasn’t actually acquired by those big NYC museums. He personally brought his art pieces into each of those places and hung them on the gallery walls himself, along with the standard description/plaque you see beside works of art.
The Wooster Collective has the exclusive story and though two of the works were removed after some time, as of yesterday two still remained on display.
The piece at the Museum of Natural History was still there. Here’s that piece:
Banksy said, “They’re good enough to be in there, so I don’t see why I should wait.”
This story is featured on the front page of today’s NY Times, and the last two pieces of art have already been removed.
comment by Tiffany on 24 March 2005 at 9:06 am
Ha! That is great. He’s kind of a renegade artist, guerilla style. I truly like that, although the piece depicted here is okay. I just admire the fact that he had the balls to do put his work on the walls without permission. NiCE!
comment by Jo on 11 July 2005 at 3:09 pm