Arts Bansky Strikes Again
Banksy, the artistic vandal who recently pranked Paris Hilton by tampering with her CDs, has hit Disney, setting a life-sized dummy of a Guantanamo inmate in the Thunder Mountain ride:
From the BBC:
The hooded figure was placed inside the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride at the California theme park last weekend. It is understood to have remained in place for 90 minutes before the ride was closed down and the figure removed.
Most of Banksy’s work takes shots at governments, celebrities, and businesses, but his greater ambition—hinted at in the work below—seems to be a social-justice-minded takedown of art itself:
You know, I really want to hate this Banksy character, but I just can't, because he's so razor-sharp. The Guantanamo figure is pure genius. So is that unbelievably fantastic sunset painting in the museum (with the Abu Ghraib figure) not only prongs the torturers but the museum itself. His shots are on target in a way that your average graffiti artist couldn't come within a mile of, and he just seems SMARTER than the art world.