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Banksy Versus Bristol Museum
Opens: 12/06/2009 Closes: 30/08/2009
Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery
True to form, nobody even knew about Banksy’s first ever gallery exhibition until it actually happened. With works adorning its existing collection – as though one giant installation – Bristol Museum may never be the same again. Then again, neither might Banksy’s reputation following this unprecedented institutional collaboration.
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The Observer“The work is mostly as cold as adverts...” Confined to a gallery, this energy looks very flat indeed. There might be some shock value in confronting a classical statue with an upturned pot of pink paint on its head in the street, but not one staged in a museum...
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The Independent“Banksy's weird, warped and despairingly comic world...” The same humour time and again, beautifully executed and judged. Is it art? I'm not sure. But it's striking, funny and memorable. And for sheer courage, both Banksy and the museum deserve acclaim...
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Guardian“You would have to be the snootiest of critics not to be swept away...” Banksy doesn't make so-called fine art, but something more direct. His work articulates his generation's cynical, shrugging wit; the ability to be both angry with and take the mickey out of the rotten ways of those in charge...
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The Telegraph“Art breaks out of its confines to become an event...” It is to be hoped that the artist will move further in this direction. But in the meantime, Banksy Versus Bristol Museum succeeds triumphantly in its aim: it's a museum show that is as cheeky and renegade...
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The Times“Giving something back to the city he grew up in...” The world’s most elusive artist has taken over the largest museum in his home town and filled it with more than 100 of his iconoclastic creations...
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