Monkey Boy (monkey)

Banksy Takes Over A Sunset Boulevard Billboard

Monkey Boy (monkey) — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:38:55 -0800

Banksy has been active in Los Angeles this week... Yesterday he liberated a billboard on Sunset Boulevard.

Banksy takes over Bristol City Museum

Monkey Boy (monkey) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:08:21 -0700

Banksy has installed the works in Bristol's City Museum and Art Gallery inside a giant burned out ice cream van. 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. Many of Banksy's works are hidden amongst the art museum's more traditional paintings, mimicking a 2003 stunt when he smuggled a work into the Tate Britain gallery in London and stuck it to the wall. It went undiscovered for hours. Simon Cook, deputy leader of Bristol council who has responsibility for arts, said he was thrilled Banksy was back, despite his controversial nature. "Everybody assumed it (his new exhibition) would be in Los Angeles, in New York, in London, but he insisted it came to Bristol... and it's just him coming home," Cook said. "Banksy, who is rumored to hail from the Bristol area, but has never revealed his full identity due to ongoing legal complications, is mounting the show as a salute to the city, which supported his early street career," it read. From small time graffiti artist to global star, Banksy's work has become so valuable that several of his street works have been salvaged and sold, including a painting on a wall in London that fetched 208,100 pounds ($340,000) in an online sale in 2008. One of the highest sums paid for a Banksy at auction was 288,000 pounds for "Space Girl and Bird."

Literal 'Street Art'

Monkey Boy (monkey) — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:09:44 -0800

Some street art in the literal sense.

Street Art in Germany

Monkey Boy (monkey) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:44:31 -0800

Germany has attracted attention to international street artists since the reunification of the city making it one of Europe's street art strongholds. A lot of bizarre post-communist locations, cheap rents and ramshackle buildings gave rise to a vibrant street art scene.

Street Art in Japan

Monkey Boy (monkey) — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:18:21 -0800

Street Art found on the streets of Japan.

Exposure Photography

Monkey Boy (monkey) — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:19:57 -0800

In photography, exposure is the total amount of light allowed to fall on the photographic medium (photographic film or image sensor) during the process of taking a photograph. Exposure is measured in lux seconds, and can be computed from exposure value (EV) and scene luminance over a specified area. Photos by Julian Mommert.

Urban Art

Monkey Boy (monkey) — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:53:21 -0800

Street art is any art developed in public spaces that is, "in the streets" though the term usually refers to art of an illicit nature, as opposed to government sponsored initiatives. The term can include traditional graffiti artwork, stencil graffiti, sticker art, wheatpasting and street poster art, video projection, art intervention, guerrilla art, flash mobbing and street installations. Typically, the term Street Art or the more specific Post-Graffiti is used to distinguish contemporary public-space artwork from territorial graffiti, vandalism, and corporate art.

Dragon One (For Sale)

Monkey Boy (monkey) — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:18:17 -0800

Flower Power by Banksy

Monkey Boy (monkey) — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:27:58 -0800

This one’s a classic by Banksy.