*UPDATED TONIGHT* Banksy Arrives in New York

OMG. Will that stupid f*****g dead rat ever go away?

Really? Banksy? This shit matters? Oy.

On marks, get set, DESTROY

Everyone is quick to assume these are banksy's simply because they are stencils.

Here are the addresses:

1. I

2. Chinatown is at East Broadway and where Bowery ends (on East Broadway)

3. Dumbo one is on Hudson Ave. and John St. (north east corner on John St.)

4. Soho one is off Broadway on Grand St. (west side)

5. Lower East Side one is on Stanton and Ludlow

Good luck cub scouts

Can we get the exact addresses of these pieces please????

you owe me a red pen!

I am amazed at the popularity of these articles. Chicagoist had over 30,000 views about it's Banksy coverage, Torontoist was something in the 50,000 range. Crazy.

Chicagoist now has 40,000 views. For one single banksy piece. craziness.

Could he be in town to build on the Fairey wall near Houston? I feel like it hasn't had enough attention...

Anyone know where in SOHO that is?

I have a distinct opinion about this artist and their success, and when I disclose it I hope you will deduce or assume certain things about me that (I feel) elevate me above others here. But I forgot what it is.

stay off my turf, punk.

Who goes to Soho for art?

Stay illegal.

Mr. Banks is a faceless coward. I hope he gets his comeuppance.

You know what else I hate, Mr. Wilson? When that Dennis The Menace walks on our lawns.

i think i saw one last week on union at metropolitan, on the side of el moderno. i didn't look closely, i was rushing to the train.

That was a piece by DOLK

I was where that piece appeared last night and there was a van and some kind of white tent propped up against the wall (construction-like) setup that was lit up and they must have been working behind it. (mystery solved of how he does this stuff without anyone ever seeing them)

well, that makes sense in terms of no one seeing the piece technically going up -- but, how does that explain police or some sort of anti-graffiti/crime unit missing an all out canvas/tent set-up complete w/ lighting?

Lights and mirrors, baby. Lights and mirrors.

Cool.

Me likes the I

I like art. I also want to go deer hunting.

I tend to like these Banksy pieces. I also appreciate the modified version with the trapped rat.

Art is too precious to be wasted arguing over who likes it. That said, the art world and who gets to make a living as an artist is controlled by a very narrow establishment of snobby trendsetters. Anyone who can subvert this and still make a living as an artist will be a hero.

Deer hunting = good times

that's pretty much Bansky. art millionaire who got to where he is by doing it his own way

I just walked by and shot a photo of the one near Wall Street. Paint is still wet.

I can see the street from my office...doesn't seem to be too busy. Going to go check it out at lunch.

contemporary art is so awful that it is getting to the point where i'm actually glad to see some "production" rather than a dipshit taking a piss (wowee, so many levels!) or sharing a contrived stare with an overhyped-celeb (whoa, so deep!).

What's the deal with Banksy? Does he even paint his own works now or just design them and contracts out the painting? I thought I read somewhere that he didn't do any of the work on that big mural on Broadway last year.

hey! water and jay. im gonna go there on my way home and take my picture by it!

I'm waiting for the pictures of the perp walk when he gets arrested. You all need a life.

lol - i think he's too clever for that.. but it'd be interesting to see what happens if he's ever caught.

where is the second piece at?

great piece!

Check in with the doc... mid life crisis in deed.

i like how he's checking for life in NY.

afraid he's not gonna find much.

Totally separate to our other debate, your perception of the graphic is interesting when compared to mine. My interpretation of the piece is that he's listening to the heart of NYC and he's loving it....

Although, I just gave it another look and the body position and look on his face is sort of indicative of doubt or anticipation.

i just went off on you again, but just ignore it. you're not so bad after all.

My issue isn't w/ money/capitalism/people trying to cash in on street art. Shit, if it's YOUR ART to cash in on then by all means, sell what you can sell and make that money, honey. But, whatever.. I think we just steered off course and the debate took a different turn once the issue of personal style/fashion/clothing came into it-

I have no ill feelings for Banksy at all. Actually, the complete opposite is true.

Anyway.. yeah, BTS is still around. Many of them are still around but since they don't really venture too far north when it comes to throw-ups and fill-ins in BK, they're not photographed by the emerging street-art photographers.

PS- Your reference to robbing doped up ravers is great, and I urge you to give some thought to the comparison between their going into raves robbing (really it wasn't so much outright robbing them but more so selling them fake pills at $25/each - although some did get outright robbed and I'm not defending this) 14 year old Jersey kids who couldn't tell the difference between a pseudophedrine pill and a real E pill and their coming to the streets of BK or NYC and selling their graff canvas art to the mass of hipster 'customers'.. Think about it for a second and tell me they're both not a hustle in their own right?

woops.. that was supposed to be up above.

oooooh no no no, im not saying i have a problem with it (and i've seen it first hand, im not talking out of my ass...ex party kid here) and im neither condemning nor condoning what BTS does. (they rob, then re-sell the pills that they obtained in the robbing) im just saying its a different way is all.

dont bring jersey into this. i left my blood pressure medication at home.

Ex party kid here, too... Makes more sense now.

can you guys make out already...

Yeah, get a room.

soon as i figure out how to send a private message on this fucking site, im working on it guys!

nice one.

aww darlin', you're not mad at me now are you?

Of course not, dear.

good

so....umm.....i don't do small talk, and i don't hit on women, so i guess our torrid internet affair has come to an end... sigh.

until the next gothamist story....

im gonna go over to the moonshine and cry into my stella.

don't think i haven't thought about it... she's got a cute screenname....

but im not OG brooklyn..so i don't think i can hang..

sigh.. back to missed connections....

you'll have better luck in Casual Encounters ;)

do you post frequently there too? cause if so..i've totally lost interest.....

:(

Nope.. Arguing with you via comments is the most friction I'm seeing by way of the internet these days!

Really, I'm just waiting around to see your pic w/ Banksy's work to cement this thing already.

so wait, what are the stakes here?

Banksy, FTW.

OMG so priceless.

This may be one of my all time favorite Banksy pieces... What I am NOT looking forward to, however, is the overload of hipstery scum that will flock to this like it is NYC's Mecca -- I can sort of picture someone standing next to it right now in too tight acid washed jeans and faux-glasses... Saddening.

KG

http://breakingupwithbrooklyn.blogspot.com

yeah, you're definitely wayyyyyy more coool than that!

you're acting like one of those kids that says "oh, the decemberists?? i listened to them before they were cool...."

who fucking cares if dickheads wear acid washed jeans and shit. every generation has this, and has always had this. different groups of people dressed a certain way since the age of time, why would now be any different? because you're an adult and are more aware of it? how is this different than people in the 80s wearing neon shit? or people in the 90s wearing hammer pants?

'll bet you had a pair.

Banksy should be schooled by De la Vega.

Are you a mac responding to PC?

Few things:

Never had any hammer pants... did, however, have tons of day-glo, neon, and many many acid-washed, diamond washed, and every other 'wash' of jean available... IN THE 80's.

I don't have issue with acid-wash and you're taking what I wrote waaaaay too literally. I am merely expressing the point that off near that Banksy piece, there is some fuckwad who is undoubtedly going to kneel down and praise the ground banksy stood on to create this piece of "street-art"...behind him will be 100 more on their pilgrimage to the Mecca that is a Banksy piece. That is my issue.. The fact that they will all have the same american-apparel tee and acid-washed jeans is a secondary issue and one that doesn't necessarily fit into this posting.

Lastly, I never claimed any 'coolness' - and for the record, I don't even know who the Decemberists are but after googling them to find out they're indy rock it doesn't surprise me that you would choose to cite them as a basis of comparison. This only further cements the fact that you're probably one of the many on their way to Mecca this afternoon.

no, all of those things are implicit in your post. this isn't my first rodeo.

the fact that you're picking apart the things i say so literally to defend yourself also shows that you know that i called you out and was spot on. you're bringing up cultural references that you associate with a certain archetype that is constantly the whipping boy for dolts on the internet to talk shit about. do i think its all kinda ridiculous? sure. would i be caught dead in skinny jeans and "ironic" t-shirts and white framed sunglasses? nope. but are they doing anything different than the rockabilly kids were doing in the 50s? nope. the hippies in the 60s? nope. the swingers in the 70s? nope. the mc fucking hammer pant wearing shingled haired kids in the 80s? nope. you see what im getting at? your citing of someones style or whatever as a basis of the type of person that will see this is pretty pointless and ignorant. the only reason its "different" is because you're aware of it as 'different' not like when you were a kid (in what, 1988?) and knew all of those neon garfield sweatshirts as 'normal', not as something a certain group of people was doing.

use any band name you want. again, that isn't the point.

if i walk by it, i walk by it. i personally couldn't give less of a shit. ill be sitting in my air conditioned office all day today.

a little cultural anthropology and logic goes a long way.

You're choosing to take the fact that I picked American Apparel tees and tight skinny/acid washed jeans to represent the hipster enclave as a basis to argue your point with me and you're entirely missing the real arguing point. I could have just as easily referenced wedged heels, flowery dresses, fixies, brooklyn industries tee-shirts, brown on brown outfits, or carrying around a used copy of a Bukowski.. Would you be so vehemently in your response had I picked a different formulaic representation of the 'hipster'?

My argument actually has very VERY little to do with the fact that these styles or whatever are "different" - because in all actuality, they're not very different at all if an entire consortium of folks is representing them, now - are they? I applaud a “different” style and wish we could see more of it. You’re totally off-track here.

My issue is not with the personification of a pair of acid-washed jeans – my issue is with the elitist attitude that often accompanies this ‘costume’. If you want to have a valid argument with me, let’s take that point on. So – let me re-iterate my original position and state there will undoubtedly be a major influx of ‘street-art’ loving hipsters that flock to this piece and that in of itself makes me sick to my stomach. There is little understanding of the street-art culture in the hipster community at all. Now, I’m all for exposure when it comes along with capital – and I especially love to walk down Spring and Prince street and see folks reppin’ ACC and BTS selling their shit to clueless hipsters, but fuck – don’t fake the funk in the process and act like you ‘know’.

Banksy already vandalized: http://tweetphoto.com/22878479

that was fast

Guys guys guys! You're both wrong! Hipsters don't like Banksy! Sheesh he's way to mainstream. They're into street art you never even HEARD of.

see? a little use of the english language goes a long way. instead of just spouting off about "OOOOOOOOOH THE DAMN HIPSTERRRRRRS!!!!!!!!!" and shit, say what you mean, mean what you say. if your issue with with capitalism, or someone trying to cash in on street art.... i think you're barking up the wrong tree. wasn't banksy anonymous for most of his "career" (and still is?) his shit just popped up around here and there and people didn't know who it was. he does some political shit, people like it, makes people think, so what? ACC and BTS aren't the only crews on the planet (BTS is still around?) either.. they make their money mugging doped up ravers (or did back in the 90s as i remember) and hustling, banksy makes his selling a book about street art or whatever. there is room for both. if people want to go look at it, who fucking cares? was it the artists intention that "only people who really know street art are cool enough to look at this..." no - he wants to send a message out to whoever looks at it. if you did something interesting, thought provoking, or the slightest bit consumable by the public, would you rather people flocking to see it, or would you stand there smugly "oh, you don't know about this... you don't know enough about street art..."

its just a different brand of art.

don't sweat the small stuff, kid.

Anyone who spends more than a fraction of their time and brainpower trying to decide what to wear is pathetic. That goes double for anyone who uses fashion to identify themselves with some fleeting amorphous subculture.

You sound old and angry.

Angry, maybe. Old, getting there

exactly. maybe even Banksy is wearing acid washed jeans!

and i don't think anyone will flock to this piece. No one did when he did the rat thing in Soho, no?

just nice to see!

I would honestly be willing to bet that by the end of this week, you'll see that piece on at least 50 different Social Media platforms with folks standing near it/around it/pointing at it.

It's a great piece and deserves representation. Being a native NYer, I especially love the concept

Did he do that piece in Brooklyn of painter painting black stripes on himself? at Union and Lorimer?

I was wondering the same thing, however there seems to be someone else posting similar stuff like that around that area, that piece however is huge and well done, so I dunno.

Those pieces are actually by Dolk- if you look closely he signed them. He has a show at Brooklynite Gallery in Bed Stuy right now.

It must be. There's also a boxer hugging a punching bag on Graham Ave, btw. Boerum and Johnson.