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It's one year since guerrilla artist Banksy's dystopian theme park Dismaland attracted 150,000 visitors to Weston-super-Mare. The Bristolian took over the Tropicana for a month to host the attraction.
The clip, which lasts for two minutes and six seconds, was posted on the elusive Bristol artist's website shortly after the ticket page went live for the exhibition in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset.
It has transformed the Somerset resort's derelict Tropicana Lido which was built in 1937 and became Europe's biggest outdoor swimming pool before it closed in 2000.
It boosted Somerset businesses by 20 per cent, hotels saw a 50 per cent increase and rail travel doubled. Visit Somerset's chief executive John Turner described Dismaland as a 'global phenomenon ...
SOMERSET, ENGLAND (CBS) --Welcome to... Dismaland? Dismaland is Britain's newest theme park and it is deliberately depressing. The park is a dark depiction of Disneyland created by British street ...
Timber and fixtures from Banksy's "Dismaland" theme park in western England will be sent to build shelters at an informal migrant camp in Calais, northern France, the elusive street artist said on ...
North Somerset Council, which worked with Bansky on the exhibition, has insisted the website is not a hoax. ... Dismaland has boosted visits to the seaside resort ...
Banksy's Dismaland, the theme park satirising Disneyland, is now providing shelter to refugees in its new home in Calais. The park was dismantled and shipped from Somerset - timber, fixtures and ...
LONDON (AP) — An anarchic amusement park by street artist Banksy that mocked capitalism and consumer culture has brought an economic boom to a faded British seaside town. Banksy's Dismaland ...
The mysterious graffiti artist unveiled a large theme park dubbed “Dismaland” today in Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, U.K., the Guardian reports. The setting is on a 2.5-acre seafront site and ...
Local authorities, who routinely had his graffiti painted over a decade ago, also now recognize the value. The local North Somerset Council said it was behind "Dismaland", mindful of a show in ...
North Somerset Council said it was trying to establish if the difficulty in getting tickets online was a real problem or a deliberate ploy by ... Dismaland features work by more than 50 artists, ...