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Art show on 2.5-acre seafront site in Weston-super-Mare features Cinderella crash scene, post-riot model village and cardboard airport security

"the aim of every artist is to arrest motion…" -Faulkner

"Cinderella's Carriage & Paparazzi" by Banksy at Dismaland, Somerset, UK

The street artist's alternative sea-front exhibition space has opened

WESTON-SUPER-MARE — Inside the walls of a derelict seaside swimming resort in Weston-super-Mare, UK, mysterious construction over the last month—including a dingy looking Disney-like castle and a gargantuan rainbow-colored pinwheel tangled in plastic—suggested something big was afoot. Suspicion and anticipation surrounding the unusual activity attributed to fabled artist and provocateur Banksy (see all previous articles about Banksy) has reached a Willy Wonka-esque fervor. Well, if Banksy’s…

designboom goes inside the 'dismaland' grounds with new-york based photographer barry salzman, who shares a photographic and narrative account of the experience.

Do you think that amusement parks aren't that amusing? Then Banksy's Dismaland (do you get the clever pun) is the place for you!

Maybe it's to represent the haphazard way that death seems to bump into our lives.

Banksy's Dismaland