Banksy opened his little pet store recently in New York (89 7th ave). It's a series of visual puns on pets stores and fast food in America. Some of it is quite amusing although more amusing are the comments you'll hear from tourists and locals in the shop, such as 'oh look, Tweety has cancer'!
There's nothing for sale and there are a series of cheap looking generic pet shop products on the wall. Bansky has been in some news of late after completing a series of very large murals in NYC, on walls that he rented as apposed to merely commandeering. It's also in the wake of some negative feedback from his New Orleans work. I was getting rather tired of the stencils so I'm glad he's exploring other ideas aside from painting livestock.
There are some more pictures in my Flickr set.
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