Ninth Ward etc

That was a Banksy... a child swinging from a life presever




Art installation. It has since been moved from the 9th ward to the sculpture garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art.


Not the best picture but I love this sign.

Other Banksy Stuff

Another of the incarnations of Banksy's destroyed National Guard Piece


I think this is gone. I don't really remember where it was, but I could figure it out.


This was next to Banksy's Simpsons piece. I think it is gone now, but the simspons piece remains.

One of the many incarnations of the stuff that has covered the Banksy national gaurd piece.

This was a Banksy..


Art installation.

Art installation. A boat in the 9th ward.

More Banksy when it was new

These two illustrate the war on the Grey Ghost.



This is perhaps the best piece that Banksy left us. Unfortunately it was quickly destroyed. But since then it has been painted on time and time again, spawning lots of new art.

New Orleans: Come for Bourbon Street, Stay for the heavy industrial machine treads in the middle of the road.

Banksy when the paint was still fresh

George W. Bush is no longer there. The building is also scheduled to be knocked down.

I do not know why, but the refrigerator painting was painted over almost immediately. Someone didn't want to sell their wall for hundreds of thousands of dollars (or keep it).. fool.

BAM!

Banksy and some houses

This is probably Banksy's most famous work in New Orleans... It is a girl with an umbrella but it is only raining inside. The past two Halloweens I have seen people dressed as this. Also some cool houses here and Ernie K-Doe's Mother in Law Lounge.

Banksy

I was astonished to 'discover' this Banksy more than a year after his visit, still totally in tact. I had known of its existence but I never found it and had assumed it was long gone. For anyone who does not know, Banksy is the most famous street artist in the world and one of the most famous current artists in general. for more of his new orleans work, look here: Banksy In NOLA

Although I am a huge fan of art, I strongly dislike talking for more than a few seconds about any piece of work other than to describe it. What I mean is, I like to let the art speak for itself and don't want to hear about composition or context or anything like that. The more ways you have of analyzing a piece of art, the less chance that it will be able to cut through and touch you, even if those methods of analysis do let you appreciate certain aspects of the work. I will say the use of the crack in the wall is interesting and I will also note that the work is fenced off because the patio that must be crossed looks like it was hit by an earthquake.