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Jolie buys up Banksy's art
Jayne Atherton, Metro21 Sep 2006
Angelina Jolie has gone on a £200,000 buying spree at an exhibition by British 'guerrilla' artist Banksy.
Jolie, who attended the opening in Los Angeles with husband Brad Pitt, spent £120,000 on a painting called Picnic, which shows a white family eating lunch beneath an umbrella while 15 starving Africans look on.
Her purchases also included a white bust with a bleeding bullet hole in the forehead, at a cost of £40,000. An onlooker said she 'went nuts'. She paid a similar amount for a piece showing a man being hit by a custard pie.
Bristol-born Banksy's exhibition hit the headlines this week when a live elephant, sprayed with non-toxic paint as part of the display, was scrubbed clean after animal activists complained.
Cards handed out at the opening of the Barely Legal exhibition read: 'There's an elephant in the room. And we never talk about it. ' The proverbial elephant was global poverty. Two weeks ago, Banksy smuggled a life-size replica of a Guantanamo Bay detainee into a ride at Disneyland.
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Banksy rocks!
- Matt, USA, 13/10/2006 04:36
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I wish I were rich so that I could buy cool art.
- Jennifer, Canada, 28/09/2006 16:03
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