This is SO cool:
The largest piece, which he smuggled into the Brooklyn Museum, was a 2 foot by 1.5 foot (61cm by 46 cm) oil painting of a colonial-era admiral, to which the artist had added a can of spray paint in his hand and anti-war graffiti in the background.
The other two targets were the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History, where he hung a glass-encased beetle with fighter jet wings and missiles attached to its body -- another comment on war, Banksy told Reuters on Thursday.
"It was just an outsider's view of the modern American bug, bristling with listening devices and military hardware," he said.
In these times when news is dark, darker and Holy Shit dark, it's encouraging to see creative acts of civil disobedience and caustic social commentary. It's also damn funny.
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