The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill

Banksy, the ultra-secretive but ultra-popular British graffiti artist, has set up shop in New York--literally. For the past several weeks, Banksy's murals have been popping up around town, setting art-world tongues wagging, and last Wednesday he unveiled his newest piece: The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill. A through-the-looking-glass pet shop featuring an animatronic monkey watching TV (a show about monkeys, naturally), a rabbit "testing" cosmetics, fish sticks swimming in a goldfish bowl, and chicken nuggets pecking at a packet of BBQ sauce, the installation is a study of our treatment of animals that is pointed and funny, though decidedly unappetizing.