Banksy in NYC

I am currently LOVING Banksy's residency in New York. The fact that he's using the whole city to show his work is great, as there are so many aspects of New York that can be played with. The best thing about it all is I don't even have to be there to enjoy it, as his website is updated daily.

Banksy is probably one of the most engaging artists of the time - he enjoys to see the reactions by people to his work, he even has put phone numbers on some of his works for people to ring and learn more, however these 'audio tours' are normally sarcastic and almost pointing fun at people who read into artwork too much. Banksy's work is so refreshingly comedic when addressing the big issues, take animal cruelty and slaughter - instead of making an extremely moving piece of work, he puts stuffed animals in a van and sends them around New York, making their little squeaky noises (which I did particularly find a bit distressing). This resonates with people for longer as its amusing and engaging, yet still addressing the issue.