Monday, October 7, 2013

New Banksy art pops up in Brooklyn


British graffiti artist Banksy popped up again on Monday, tagging a wall in Red Hook with a 3-dimensional red heart-shaped balloon covered in bandages.


The rogue street artist, on a month-long spray painting spree — billed as “an artist’s residency on the streets of New York” — has so far only tagged locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn.


The floating Mylar balloon mural was painted on a wall of a building at the corner of King and Van Brunt streets.


“This piece is obviously an iconic representation of the battle to survive a broken heart. It’s an uplifting visual poem to that most fragile of human emotions that seem to move within us as if on a soft breeze,” an audio guide at banksy.co.uk explains.


The narrator then appears to take a hit of helium and, with gas-altered high pitched voice, goes into a raunchy impersonation of Mickey Mouse.


Banksy started his project on Oct. 1 and has created five works so far, taking Sunday off.


The street art has been lauded, lampooned, altered, erased and defaced by people and pets alike.


He has just over three weeks to go in his project, entitled “Better Out Than In.”





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