Banksy continues his New York street art residency, "Better Out Than In," with a small mural of a bandaged balloon heart, shared via his new Instagram and website. It's a bit softer than the video he posted yesterday of rebel terrorists abusing Dumbo the elephant after shooting him down with a missile, but it's just as minimal as the three "The Musical" pieces he did (which were additions to existing graffiti).
Banksy has painted heart-shaped balloons before, such as his 2012 piece Girl With a Balloon in London. While many are wondering what inspired this project, others, like Jeffrey Deitch, have offered their thoughts on Banksy's legacy and why he or his work may irritate academic conceptualists. He says,
As RJ Rushmore points out on Vandalog, when speaking of Banksy's Rebel rocket attack video, "The Internet is a public space now. So much street art and art in general is made to be seen online be the same public that’s supposed to be seeing street art on the street."
The point is, Banksy's got people talking about the relationship between conceptual and street art and how the Internet, in many ways, can function like the street.
The address of the piece hasn't been identified yet, but many think that it's in Greenpoint. Just before he posted the Instagram, Banksy tweeted this...
And we still have the rest of October to look forward to!
UPDATE OCT. 15 10:23 ET: After Banksy's work was tagged by Omar soon after going up, it was covered in Plexiglas to protect it, but the plastic casing was shattered shortly after, of course. A man also took it upon himself to stand guard in front of the piece all night. The Plexiglas has since been replaced by a steel box.
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