Friday, April 02, 2004
I wondered what had happened to Banksy's 'The Drinker' statue last time I passed through Shaftesbury Avenue, turns out it's been kidnapped by an 'art collective' (i.e: a couple of art students smashed on cider). It seems that the kidnap and accompanying manifesto are intended as a guerrilla attack on the notion of Banksy as a guerrilla artist. It's funny as the kidnappers are probably going to be pissed off when they realise Banksy isn't that bothered and certainly doesn't want to stamp up the ransom.
