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Banksy at the Museums!!! ♥♥♥♥♥♥CULT VIDEO♥♥♥♥♥♥
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Dressed as a British pensioner, over the last few days Banksy entered each of the galleries and attached one of his own works, complete with authorative name plaque and explanation.
Need Talent to Exhibit in Museums? Not This Prankster
By RANDY KENNEDY
Published: March 24, 2005
t was not nearly as dangerous as the time he sneaked into the elephant pen at the London Zoo and scrawled a graffiti message from the point of view of an elephant: “I want out. This place is too cold. Keeper smells. Boring, boring, boring.”
And it was not quite as elaborate as the stunt last year in which he spirited a stuffed rat wearing wraparound sunglasses into the Natural History Museum in London and mounted it on a wall.
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But over the last two weeks, a shadowy British graffiti artist who calls himself Banksy has carried his own humorous artworks into four New York institutions – the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the American Museum of Natural History – and attached them with some sort of adhesive to the walls, alongside other paintings and exhibits. Similar stunts at the Louvre and the Tate museum have earned the artist – who will not reveal his real name – a following in Europe, where he has had successful gallery shows and sold thousands of books of his artwork. But his graffiti has also landed him in legal trouble.
Need Talent to Exhibit in Museums? Not This Prankster
By RANDY KENNEDY
Published: March 24, 2005
t was not nearly as dangerous as the time he sneaked into the elephant pen at the London Zoo and scrawled a graffiti message from the point of view of an elephant: “I want out. This place is too cold. Keeper smells. Boring, boring, boring.”
And it was not quite as elaborate as the stunt last year in which he spirited a stuffed rat wearing wraparound sunglasses into the Natural History Museum in London and mounted it on a wall.
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But over the last two weeks, a shadowy British graffiti artist who calls himself Banksy has carried his own humorous artworks into four New York institutions – the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the American Museum of Natural History – and attached them with some sort of adhesive to the walls, alongside other paintings and exhibits. Similar stunts at the Louvre and the Tate museum have earned the artist – who will not reveal his real name – a following in Europe, where he has had successful gallery shows and sold thousands of books of his artwork. But his graffiti has also landed him in legal trouble.
Elyse Topalian, a spokeswoman for the Met, said that museum officials believed that a painting found there – a small, gold-framed portrait of a woman wearing a gas mask – was hung surreptitiously on March 13. Guards noticed it and removed it from a wall near other paintings in the American wing, she said. Ms. Topalian added that no damage had been done to the wall or to other artworks.
The museum does not look kindly on such unauthorized additions to its walls. “I think it’s fair to say that it would take more than a piece of Scotch tape to get a work of art into the Met,” Ms. Topalian said.
Sally Williams, a spokeswoman for the Brooklyn Museum, said a painting – in this case, of a red-coated colonial-era military officer holding a spray-paint can, with antiwar graffiti in the background – was discovered and removed on March 16. The painting was hung between two others from the museum’s permanent collection in the American Identities galleries on the fifth floor. She said that the painting was now sitting in the museum’s conservation lab and that its fate was uncertain.
“I think the immediate issue was just to get it out of the gallery and tucked away somewhere where it couldn’t be seen,” she said.
An official at the Museum of Modern Art said that a painting of a can of cream-of-tomato soup was found hanging in a third-floor elevator lobby and taken down on March 17. A spokesman for the Museum of Natural History, where the graffiti artist apparently hung a glass-encased beetle (a real one) equipped with fighter jet wings, missiles and a satellite dish, confirmed the incident by e-mail but did not say when the work was found.
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The Shirelles at the 92nd Street Y
The Shirelles perform “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” at the 92nd Street Y’s Annual Spring Gala Benefit in 2007.
Duration : 0:1:45
Banksy Show • Bristol City Museum • 2009
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Banksy Show held at the Bristol City Museum & Gallery.
13th June – 31st August 2009
Banksy Versus Bristol City Museum
Duration : 0:5:55
The Andy Borowitz Report: Obama’s First Year at the 92nd Street Y
Award-winning comedian and satirist Andy Borowitz, of The New Yorker and BorowitzReport.com, hosts an irreverent look at President Obama’s first year in office. Borowitz is joined by an A-list panel of guests from the world of politics, comedy and journalism, including Jeffrey Toobin, Calvin Trillin and Janeane Garofalo.
Duration : 0:11:18
Manhattan House – 200 East 66th Street (Upper East Side) – NYC – Condo
Building ID: 114442
Notes: http://www.insiderater.com
Duration : 0:4:49
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn on Women’s Education (at Asia Society’s Annual Dinner)
NEW YORK, November 17, 2009 – Sheryl WuDunn and her husband Nicholas Kristof discuss education and empowerment with news anchor Daljit Dhaliwal at the Asia Society Annual Dinner.
For more info: http://www.asiasociety.org/centers/new-york/new-york-annual-dinner-salutes-couples-beyond-borders
Duration : 0:5:25
Ani DiFranco at the 92nd Street Y
Ani DiFranco in Conversation with Anthony DeCurtis. 12/16/07.
Duration : 0:7:32
Alfred Adler Series at the 92nd Street YNeil Sedaka at the 92nd Street Y
Neil Sedaka peforms “Love Will Keep Us Together” at the 92nd Street Y’s Annual Spring Gala Benefit in 2007.
Duration : 0:2:58
Joan Baez “There But For Fortune” at the 92nd Street Y
Joan Baez talks with Anthony DeCurtis about the songwriters of the 60s and performs “There But For Fortune” written by Phil Ochs. This event took place at the 92nd Street Y on September 4, 2008.
Duration : 0:7:21