The Village Petstore and Charcoal Grill

I'm so glad I got to see this before it closed. (Thanks, Linda!) Banksy, the ubiquitous London street artist, tried his hand at animatronic irony. As he puts it, "New Yorkers don't care about art. They care about pets." The Independent has a better explanation. The Wooster Collective, an excellent blog devoted to street art, described it in October:

While New Yorkers have been consumed by the stock market meltdown, a tiny little pet store quietly opened four days ago at 89 7th Avenue between West 4th and Bleeker Street in the West Village of New York City.

There are no puppies or kittens in the windows here.

Instead, a live leopard lounges on a tree in the window.

Or is it?

In other windows, things get a bit more bizarre.

McDonald's Chicken McNuggets sip barbecue sauce. A rabbit puts on her makeup. A CCTV camera nurtures its young.