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Ultimately Meaningless: Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel Is The Nadir Of Street Art

As spray can charlatan Banksy opens his Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem, Bella Gladman argues that it makes for a naff and simplistic stunt devoid of political power or artistic merit
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A Police Utopia: Jimmy Cauty’s Aftermath Dislocation Principle

The KLF's Jimmy Cauty discusses taking his dystopian model village on a tour of the sites of great riots from the past, present, and future
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Beat Street: Graffiti Online And Off

In the week of Pussy Riot's collaboration with Banksy's Dismaland, a flyer for an online street art exhibition prompts tQ’s Robert Barry to muse on the paradoxical essence of graffiti
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Fishing for the Truth: Social Networking Doc Catfish Reviewed

The latest in a glut of films which blur the boundaries between documentary and fiction, _Catfish_ chronicles a social networking encounter too strange to be believed. Daniel Nixon thinks the film, out on DVD this week, perfectly captures the illusory nature of online relationships and all of their pitfalls, even if it stands on morally shaky ground.

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