When the story broke that a Banksy artwork had rendered a vagrant street performer homeless, it was in danger of turning the evictee into a commodity himself. But isn't a play detailing the event doing exactly the same thing?"THIS LOOKS A BIT LIKE AN ELEPHANT." That slogan, in black block capitals, appeared on a water tank in Los Angeles in February 2011, courtesy of the surreptitious street artist Banksy. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:47AM on April 4, 2014