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Banksy said: "This is the first show I've ever done where taxpayers' money is being used to hang my pictures up rather than scrape them off." Staged in the council-owned City Museum and Art Gallery, Banksy v Bristol Museum features animatronics, installations and a sensory display. "I think we may have dragged them down to our level rather than being elevated to theirs," said Banksy of the subterfuge involved in staging the show in his home city. 'Megastar' Museum director Kate Brindley said it was a huge relief to finally be able to talk about the exhibition, and admitted they had taken a "risk". Normally this grand building is home to artefacts and paintings remembering Bristol's maritime history, but today the Edwardian halls are filled with Banksy's unique blend of anger and humour.
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SWOON in New Orleans
It seems that New Orleans has the potential to become the new Street Art Capital of America. An interesting cityscape with a multitude of surfaces to create on, its temperature is conducive to early morning missions.There is even a character, the Gray Ghost, who plays out the perfect storyline of Hero-artist / Hero-villian. Banksy has left his mark here, and now New York’s street art ‘goddess’ SWOON is decorating the streets of the Big Easy. Her graceful cut-outs will surely win over the city just as they have won over New Yorkers and the world abound. And honestly, if the art critic of the biggest paper in town gets to make awesome videos like the one above (My favorite quote coming at 1:37) than let it be and hope the artists keep coming.
