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Banksy's West Village Pet Store

Banksy has been in New York recently. This week, the brilliantly elusive art-world icon opened his first real NYC exhibition on Seventh Avenue: an animatronic pet store with swimming fish-sticks, living Chicken McNuggets, and nuzzling hot dogs. Welcome to Banksy's land.

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photo by Sam Horine

"I wanted to make art that questioned our relationship with animals and the ethics and sustainability of factory farming," Banksy explains in an official press release. "But it ended up as chicken nuggets singing."

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