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

"Banksy's new installation The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill in New York". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
"In pictures: Banksy's pet shop". BBC News. October 10, 2008.

External links

Official website

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[tele-1] "Banksy's new installation The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill in New York". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 17 December 2015.

[beeb-2] "In pictures: Banksy's pet shop". BBC News. October 10, 2008.

Banksy
List of works by Banksy Works by Banksy that have been damaged or destroyed
Works	The Mild Mild West (1999) Pulp Fiction Gorilla in a Pink Mask Bombing Middle England Girl with Balloon (2002) Flying Copper (2003) Bomb Hugger (2003) Ballerina with Action Man Parts Corrupted Oil Jerry (2003) Parachuting Rat (2003) Space Girl and Bird (2003) Kissing Coppers (2004) Untitled (2004) Fragile Silence The Drinker Show Me the Monet (2005) Well Hung Lover (2006) Self Portrait One Nation Under CCTV (2008) Devolved Parliament (2009) Forgive Us Our Trespassing Follow Your Dreams (2010) Cardinal Sin (2011) Slave Labour (2012) Better Out Than In (2013) Art Buff (2014) Spy Booth (2014) The Son of a Migrant from Syria (2015) Civilian Drone Strike (2017) Love is in the Bin (2018) Valentine's Banksy (2020) Painting for Saints (2020) If You Don't Mask, You Don't Get (2020) Hula Hooping Girl (2020)
Exhibitions	Turf War (2003) Barely Legal (2006) The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill (2008) Dismaland (2015) The Walled Off Hotel (2017)
Related	Think Tank (2003 album cover) Leake Street (2008) Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010 documentary) "MoneyBart" (2010 TV episode) The Antics Roadshow (2011 documentary) Banksy Does New York (2014 documentary) The Banksy Job (2016 documentary) Banksy and the Rise of Outlaw Art (2020 documentary)