Banksy’s Dismaland website is up. Includes full details and schedules.
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Banksy’s Dismaland Theme Park Opens
Channel 4 News reports, August 20, 2016:
Banksy’s “family theme park unsuitable for small children” has opened on the Weston-super-Mare seafront. It features migrant boats, dead princesses and Banksy’s trademark dark humour.
The park features Banksy’s artistry as well as works by 50 other artists including Damien Hirst and Jenny Holzer.
Buzzfeed published these photos:
Banksy’s theme? According the BBC he said, “”I guess you’d say it’s a theme park whose big theme is ‘theme parks should have bigger themes’.”
Read more about what Banksy describes as a “family theme park unsuitable for children” at BBC.com and at Huffington Post.
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Inside “˜Dismaland”: Banksy”s Sinister Disney-Trolling Theme Park Reportedly Opening This Weekend
The Daily Beast
August 17, 2015
The shadowy street artist has allegedly been constructing a massive pop-up theme park under the guise of filming a Hollywood movie, and it”s rumored to open August 21 in the UK.
This past weekend at their annual D23 Expo, a veritable Comic-Con devoted to all things Mouse House, Disney unveiled plans for Star Wars Land””a pair of elaborate theme parks that will transport visitors to the land(s) of Star Wars, replete with a Millennium Falcon simulator, a plethora of cosplaying characters, and””yes””a full-service Cantina.
But if getting wasted on intergalactic booze, starting static with a costumed Greedo, and throwing your hard-earning money at a corporate giant isn”t your thing, then perhaps Dismaland is the place for you.
Dismaland is the name of Banksy”s gloriously subversive theme park that is heavily rumored to be opening this weekend””that is Friday, August 21″”in the UK. Pictures of its mysterious construction in the seaside resort town of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England, began surfacing online late last week.
Read the whole article here.