Banksy versus the Bristol Museum
This is rather late, but it has to be written up as the Banksy versus Bristol Museum exhibition was fantastic. The exhibition of the elusive graffiti artist Banksy was suddenly unveiled last month (June 13th) with BBC newscasts coming live from the Bristol Museum the day before it opened.
Banksy who has been known to sneak a fake exhibit in to the Bristol Museum in past years has shaken up the dusty museum by putting more than 100 of his own artworks among it's real exhibits. http://www.banksy.co.uk/
Ben and I took our friend Lewis to see the exhibition in the first week it opened, and we were truly amazed at how inventive Banksy is. We had always known about his Graffiti but his sculpture and animatronics were some of the most thought provoking items in the show.
There is a main Room that houses a number of his most famous 2 dimensional art and it was well worth the one hour queue which most people face to get into the museum.
In another room, full of his animated sculptures, there's what looks like a living, breathing wild cat, I'm not sure if it is a cheetah or a leopard. A leopard may be mistaken for a cheetah or a Jaguar. When you see it from the back it is sat reclined in a tree. as you get nearer, and move round the cage you notice, with a chill, that it's been made into a fur coat.
The exhibition is open until Aug 31; admission free.
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