spank the monkey

Space Invaders (2007), at various locations, is by urban artist Invader, and was commissioned as part of Baltic's Spank The Monkey show.

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You may recall that his colourful geometric patterns featured in Baltic and also in a couple of Nexus tunnels during the Spank the Monkey exhibition of street art.

PAIN ships with several distinctive single player modes, including the gut-busting "Spank the Monkey," where the player targets taunting monkeys scattered in the environment, and the hilarious "Mime Toss," where the goal is to throw a mime through various plates of glass in the fastest time possible.

Haring, along with Jean-Michel Basquiat, was the first street artist to jump the curb and enter the gallery; since then graffiti and other work that falls under the catch-all label "street art" has--at least according to Pedro Alonzo and Baltic director Peter Doroshenko, the curators of "Spank the Monkey"--not only transcended the street to take up residence in the white cube but become the wallpaper of any number of video games (if the presence of Nintendo PlayStation kiosks in the gallery is anything to go by) and moved onto the shop floor (an early iteration of which was Haring's Pop Shop).

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Thursday's opening act, Spank The Monkey includes musicians who were brought up in Cropedy itself.

In They Don't Make This Anymore, McGee - who featured in Baltic's controversial graffiti exhibition Spank The Monkey - looks at the melancholy and humour of urban life.

It shows and sells work by the likes of Banksy and Faile who featured not so long ago in Baltic's exhibition, Spank the Monkey, over the river in Gateshead.

THIS is an old favourite of ours where you get to Spank the Monkey.

BOXING LEGEND: Muhammed AN in a 1977 still from The King of South Shields;ACCLAIMED: Barry McGee's Spank the Monkey artwork and, right, a photographic portrait from Last of the Dictionary Men by artist Youssef Nabil;HISTORICAL: Tina Gharavi will present video portraits

Sir Ian said: "When you think of Spank the Monkey and other exhibitions that have taken place, they have been outstandingly good.

Among these were the Spank the Monkey display by graffiti artists, the sleeping video portrait of David Beckham, along with 27 photos of film stars crying.

TH_NK worked with the Baltic to bring a digital dimension to its campaign for the UK's first international urban art exhibition, Spank the Monkey.

Curator Pedro Alonzo, who is based in California and also curated Spank the Monkey at the end of last year, said the exhibition was designed to reflect the experience of visiting a natural history museum.