Banksy has confirmed that he was responsible for an art display at Glastonbury in which an inflatable boat filled with "migrant" dummies was hoisted above the crowd during two sets at the festival. He also hit back at U.K. Home Secretary James Cleverly who accused the artist of trivializing small boat migrant crossings in the Channel and described his boat as "vile." On Instagram, Banksy wrote: "The Home Secretary called my Glastonbury boat 'vile and unacceptable' which seemed a bit over the top. The real boat I fund, the MV Louise Michel, rescued 17 unaccompanied children from the central Med on Monday night. As punishment, the Italian authorities have detained it – which seems vile and unacceptable to me."
Here's more from Metro.
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Friend of mine just casually mentions how he's diverting vast amounts of NYT microfilm from a landfill. IDK what he's up to, or why he insists on staying on facebook ... but this is why I must go over there from time to time. This could be an interesting project.
Anyways, I know there are a lot of "archival arts people" around on here anything I should tell him?
today's comp exam reading is @inquiline's OIL BEACH and it is very good!!
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-79/ this week in sentences: borrow shame, a collapse, not exactly sure, divorced giant, gently
https://ripcorp.biz/episodes/walk-on-the-blade-the-marc-rich-co-commodities-story new RIP Corp klaxon!! Hope u like commodities trading history
https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/112677466576290050 the replies in this thread 🍿
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-78/ this week in sentences: monkey flowers, presumably adult, an ongoing war, more like weather, explain my passions, fancy and caprice, the skull hung over, button pushers
http://wares.lifewinning.com a gentle reminder that I make and sell plotter drawings, perhaps you would like one
(just got my monthly shopify bill so need to sell a couple items to justify continuing to have this online)