Banksy's "Village Pet Store And Charcoal Grill"

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Andrew Price
Former Web Editor, GOOD.is

October 9, 2008 • 5:20 pm PDT
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Here's a video of Banksy's latest endeavor: a "pet store" in the West Village of NYC, complete with animatronic Chicken McNuggets and a family of CCTV cameras. The animatronics remind us of certain Damien Hirst works that blur the lines between animate and inanimate, organic and artificial. Banksy's work manages to be a little friendlier, though.

[youtube width="425" height="355"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1laBLYjuqM[/youtube]

Wooster Collective has a small gallery of great photos and all the details. The store's official site is here.

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