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Are museums bad places to look at art?

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A museum is a bad place to look at art, according to the artist Banksy.

In an interview with the Guardian, the street artist said “the worst context for art is other art”. He was speaking to the paper about his latest venture, Dismaland, a pop-up theme park in Weston-super-Mare.

Open for five weeks, Dismaland is situated in a former lido and features distorted fibreglass fairground sculptures made by Banksy as well as a miniature village by Jimmy Cauty, the Jeffrey Archer Memorial Fire Pit and Knock the Anvil, a game designed by David Shrigley.

There are also three large galleries, which are described on the park’s website as “the finest collection of contemporary art ever assembled in a north Somerset seaside town”.

Banksy told the Guardian that the benefit of showing art in a small seaside town like Weston-super-Mare is “you’re only competing with donkeys”.

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