Matcom-esqe News: 'Hang-and-Run' Artist Strikes NYC Museums

LynzM

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Thu Mar-24-05 07:07 PM
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Matcom-esqe News: 'Hang-and-Run' Artist Strikes NYC Museums

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4559961

In a reverse-theft of sorts, a British artist has been sneaking his works into some of New York's top museums.

The artist, who goes by the name Banksy, has surreptitiously hung works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the American Museum of Natural History and the Brooklyn Museum.

NPR interviewed him, it was pretty funny!

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redqueen

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Thu Mar-24-05 07:08 PM
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1. Glad you remembered this...

hilarious!

Good for him. :)

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LynzM

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Thu Mar-24-05 07:10 PM
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4. Yeah, it's pretty funny!

And he has this great British accent that was almost unintelligible at times, but funny all the same. He said he had to try to not get arrested "too many times", LOL!

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BrklynLiberal

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Thu Mar-24-05 07:08 PM
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2. Nice art.

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LynzM

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Thu Mar-24-05 07:14 PM
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6. Yeah, interesting....

I wonder what he's trying to say with that.

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Longgrain

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Thu Mar-24-05 07:10 PM
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3. Yep, I've seen this guy before...

Not nearly as bad as the guy who used to go into museums and vomit on all the paintings tho...

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LynzM

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Thu Mar-24-05 07:15 PM
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7. Iiiiiiew.

That's gross, and although a highly effective commentary, kinda disturbing.

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Longgrain

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Thu Mar-24-05 07:20 PM
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8. The thing is he used food coloring so that he could puke in the

primary colors. It was a very premeditated performance piece, that got him into a lot of trouble...

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Book Lover

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Thu Mar-24-05 07:11 PM
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5. A page from the Guerrilla Girls' book!

I love it! And apparently nice work, too.

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alfredo

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Thu Mar-24-05 07:24 PM
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9. Love his work

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jonnyblitz

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Thu Mar-24-05 07:38 PM
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10. I like it, too!

:thumbsup:

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