Banksy is, at his core, a political satirist. A cartoonist. He just likes to make things more public and in your face. More interactive. So the fact that his first hotel is just a canvas for the worlds anxieties is no surprise. But damn it’s fun!
“Walled Off Hotel”, an obvious pun on the Waldorf, the New York City hotel that caters to the richest of the rich, and it’s location in the West Bank on the Palestine-Israel border wall. It opens officially on March 11th.
You have just GOT to look through these photos and see the masterpiece that I will never get to stay in because I’m not crazy and I’m not going there.
