The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill

The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill is an art installation by Banksy. Held in Greenwich Village in 2008, it marked the graffiti artist's first official exhibition in New York.^[1] The installation took the form of a fake pet shop and aimed to question "our relationship with animals and the ethics and sustainability of factory farming".^[2]

Banksy said that "New Yorkers don't care about art, they care about pets. So I'm exhibiting them instead." The installation featured a variety of bizarre exhibits, including animatronic hot-dogs apparently performing a sex act; chicken nuggets with legs, dipping themselves in sauce; and a robot monkey wearing headphones, watching TV in a cage.^[1]^[2]

References

1 2 "Banksy's new installation The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill in New York". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
1 2 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7662797.stm

External links

The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill

Banksy

List of works by Banksy • Works by Banksy that have been damaged or destroyed

Works	The Mild Mild West (1997) Pulp Fiction Gorilla in a Pink Mask Bombing Middle England Balloon Girl Bomb Hugger Ballerina with Action Man Parts Parachuting Rat (2003) Untitled (2004) Fragile Silence Space Girl and Bird The Drinker One Nation Under CCTV (2008) Forgive Us Our Trespassing Cardinal Sin (2011) Slave Labour (2012) Art Buff Self Portrait Spy Booth (2014) Dismaland (2015) The Son of a Migrant from Syria (2015)

Exhibitions	Turf War (2003) Barely Legal (2006) The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill

Related	Bankrobber London Leake Street Think Tank (2003) Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) "MoneyBart" (2010) The Antics Roadshow (2011) Better Out Than In (2013)

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