(Just about how every NYC food blog heralds each new midtown food truck.)
Over the 100+ works in the new Banksy exhibition, Banksy vs. Bristol Museum, we found about 15% of them involve food and drink. Since Eat Me Daily already posted on the topic, we thought we'd bring you the full foodie highlights of the show. Among the highlights, cockroaches feasting on still lifes, revisted works from the Village Pet Shop and Charcoal Grill, a Muslim woman in provocative kitchenwear, a gay bishop offering lollipops, a Greek goddess stumbling home after last call, the now infamous burnt out ice cream truck, and children saluting a Tesco bag like a flag.
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On the off-chance you're finding our site for the first time after seeing it in the updated KAWS segment on CBS Sunday Morning earlier today - read the story behind our role in said segment here - we thought we'd make it easy for you to find all our past posts on the artist in one place, after the jump.
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Yesterday we discovered what lies beneath The Smile - the new mixed-use cafe boutique at 26 Bond Street - as we visited Scott Campbell (laboring, left) there in the basement at the new Manhattan branch of Saved Tattoo. Over our time spent under the needle topics ranged from Dan Barber to Tom Waits, mega yachts in Monaco to 19th Century whaling ships but all the best parts are just too good to give up; we're not about to repeat a word of it. If you want to hear those stories, you should suffer yourself, the conversation such a pleasant distraction you won't feel a thing. We'll only say this: He's responsible for the nicest anecdote about Marc Jacobs we've heard maybe ever. And despite his love for tattooing lettering and his talent for laser etching, he's actually not responsible for the custom engraved Laguiole cutlery diners enjoy upstairs.
Need more? Our tattoo's origin and a look inside the cafe's forbidden basement after the jump.
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