Over the past five weeks, more than 150,000 people have visited the subversive theme park in a derelict seafront lido, which had been shut since 2000 and reopened in a blaze of publicity on 20 August. [...]
But, it is the town's tourist businesses that have reaped the benefit - to the tune of £20m, says Visit Somerset, more than three times what the trade body initially suggested. [...]
Everyone has noted the irony of the anti-capitalist art show boosting business.
— bbc.com
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amazingly Anti-Capitalist!
The ultimate parody, in which money didn't get sucked out by some anonymous foreign corporate vampire but was instead injected right into the local community. Absolutely fabulous.
Art can and still matters in life, I wonder if similar things will happens elsewhere. Art as economic engine but hopefully not to the detriment of freedom of expression.
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