Weekend Stubble

One of my favorite recent book purchases was from Quimby's a couple weeks ago: it's Cut It Out, a collection of public stencilworks by guerilla artist Banksy. You may recall the recent Times piece on his practice of sneaking his own parodic artworks onto the walls of the Met. Banksy's own website includes this fine clipping from the Telegraph:



A lot of Cut It Out is equally cheeky or provoking, but some of it is unexpectedly moving or just flat-out inspired. And at $11, it's just about the best deal going in clever art books...