Friday, October 10, 2008

The Looting of New Orleans



Banksy has been hitting up certain US cities, New York and New Orleans. This image is from New Orleans, National Guardsmen looting a house. I love it. Apparently several of his other works in NO have already been painted over. Too bad.

Image from Kitsune Noir

7 comments:

the spool artist said...

wow, Bansky! His work is rather engaging and compelling. Thanks for posting his work... I'll google him and find out more about him!

Ashlee said...

he is brilliant.

lovely blog.

Joanna Goddard said...

what a great great image. xo

Uncle Beefy said...

I went through all of his images yesterday and bookmarked him for this very series! Isn't it POWERFUL? Such amazing work! Glad you posted.

Courtney said...

beautiful work --- did you see the post I did on him not long ago? He has some amazing other bits in this series as well. Such an incredible street artist.

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Megan said...

Hey everyone, thank you for all your great comments. I think Banksy's work is extremely provocative, and really hits in the gut. It also has great wit.

Courtney, I must have missed your post about his work, I;m going to have to go back and find it, Don't know how I missed it.

Uncle Beefy, thanks for stopping by! I feel like I'm starstruck, I just love your blog, it's always inspiring. I'm glad you liked the post, I picked my favorite image.