Banksy has just published some brilliant new stencils on his website ahead of the Olympic Games which start in London in three days time at unknown locations presumably in the U.K.
Banksy
Banksy graffiti stencils including some of his most iconic images of the Flower Thrower, Girl with Balloon, Mona Lisa with a grenade launcher, and chimpanzee with a sandwich board can be found all over Buenos Aires.
This amazing facade of a old town house in San Telmo features numerous designs copied from Banksy in Buenos Aires. Check out BA Street Art’s exclusive story and photos.
Banksy has dozens of designs around the streets of London which are still intact. One of the best ways to recognise a Banksy is if it’s covered in perspex. Here are a few perspexed Banksys that BA Street Art photographed on Street Art London’s walking tour around Shoreditch, East London. They include a pink Triumph GT6 that Banksy painted in 2004. The car used to have a skeleton driver painted on one of the windows but it’s since been removed.
Art in the Streets, the first major exhibition in the U.S. about the history of graffiti and street art, opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles this week. Artists include Banksy, Os Gemeos, Shepard Fairey, Invader, Swoon and others. Here are some of the best artworks by Banksy from the exhibition. Many thanks to B.Land for use of his fantastic photos.
Mr Brainwash, the actor in Banksy’s film Exit Through the Gift Shop, has painted two new stencils along Sunset Boulevard in LA. The artworks appeared just before the Oscars ceremony during which Banksy’s movie lost out in the category of best documentary feature. Continue reading →
New artworks by Banksy in Los Angeles have been causing quite a stir ahead of the Oscars on Sunday in which his movie ‘Exit Through the Gift Shop’ has been nominated for best documentary.
In the urban jungle that is Buenos Aires you can find primates of all types – humans living in perfect harmony with our closest cousins. All over the city, on its walls, bridges, road signs and parks are stencils and murals of apes and monkeys watching over us. They are of course a common theme in street art, often depicted by Banksy with the artist even appearing in his movie Exit Through the Gift Shop disguised in a chimpanzee mask.
Chimp by Ice
We have to tell you about a friend who is doing her bit to help protect primates. Matt from BA Street Art first met Asha Tanna in 2007 when we were working together at Five News. Matt was working as a sports journalist and she was one of the channel’s main television presenters.
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| Asha presenting Five News in 2008 |
In 2009, the recession hit the UK TV industry hard with many of my friends and colleagues finding themselves out of work. Asha herself lost her job while I’d already started packing my bags for Argentina. Last year, following an inspiring trip to Uganda, where she filmed conservationists working with chimpanzees at Bundongo Forest Reserve, Asha decided to abandon her TV presenting career and make the bold move to re-train and become a primatologist.
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| David Attenborough with mountain gorillas in 1979 |
Through her blog whogivesamonkeys.com Asha has been reporting on important issues such as the smuggling of apes, mountain gorillas and palm oil, and also interviewed none other than Sir David Attenborough. Asha is hoping her efforts will raise awareness about the plight of monkeys and apes and help to preserve them in their natural habitats.
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| Chef Ape by Ice Arte from Textura Dos |
The self-titled ‘Urban Primate’ has been kind enough to write an article about Textura Dos that includes photographs from the book and others I’ve taken around Buenos Aires. Here are some more of my photos:
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| Gorilla by Run Dont Walk |
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| Three orangutans by Cabaio Stencil in Colegiales |
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| Simians or society? |
If you’re a fan of science-fiction films and seeing all these images of apes around town, might remind you of the movie Planet of the Apes ( we’re talking about the original not the Tim Burton remake). For those of you who don’t know, it stars Charlton Heston as an astronaut who crash lands on a planet ruled by apes where bestial humans are shot for sport by gorillas and kept in zoo-like enclosures.
Apocolyptic ending in Planet of the Apes (1968)
I think the closing scene is one of the best endings of any movie, revealing that the Planet of the Apesis actually a futuristic, post-apocalyptic earth.
Last night I came across this stencil in Palermo. After a few beers, seeing it felt a little weird!!
