# The 'Walled Off Hotel' Bethlehem .... the worst view in the world! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Arts\ **Created:** [5 March 2017 23:59 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/the-walled-off-hotel-bethlehem-the-worst-view-in-the-world/1409 "2017-03-05T23:59:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![steveintheforest](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/steveintheforest/32/135_2.png) [@steveintheforest](https://www.sotonians.com/u/steveintheforest)\ **Post date:** [5 March 2017 23:59 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/the-walled-off-hotel-bethlehem-the-worst-view-in-the-world/1409/1 "2017-03-05T23:59:32Z")
Just been reading about street artist Banksy’s new project, The Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem. First I’ve heard of it but what a crazy mad idea !! I’ll leave the politics to the more knowlegeable (argumentative) posters on here but here’s a couple of links to articles, mostly pictures, of it’s mental location and his very kooky interior decor. [In Pictures … Banksy’s new Bethlehem hotel](https://www.theguardian.com/travel/gallery/2017/mar/03/the-walled-off-hotel-by-banksy-in-pictures) [Banksy’s ‘Walled Off Hotel’ in picture slideshow](http://www.thenational.ae/arts-life/art/inside-banksys-walled-off-hotel-in-bethlehem---in-pictures#9) Pap, Soggy, SOS, Barry et al … fill yer boots !! ## … tho’ it’s an Arts thread really :lou_wink_2: ---
**Author:** ![Barry-Sanchez](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/barry-sanchez/32/76_2.png) [@Barry-Sanchez](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Barry-Sanchez)\ **Post date:** [6 March 2017 06:50 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/the-walled-off-hotel-bethlehem-the-worst-view-in-the-world/1409/2 "2017-03-06T06:50:42Z")
That is as sad as it is superb, Banksy has his detractors as a simplistic protest artist but I love him and have had a couple in the house (obviously not original ha ha). The pictures are superb, the posture of the waiter’s are brilliant, just waiting, waiting for that bastard wall to fall. ---
**Author:** ![Saint-or-sinner](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saint-or-sinner/32/64280_2.png) [@Saint-or-sinner](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Saint-or-sinner)\ **Post date:** [6 March 2017 07:44 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/the-walled-off-hotel-bethlehem-the-worst-view-in-the-world/1409/3 "2017-03-06T07:44:07Z")
Like the pillow fight one. Looks very interesting place to go. There you go @steveintheforest my contribution. That was what you meant i hope. Burn the Balfour one though, it’s hideous. ---
**Author:** ![steveintheforest](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/steveintheforest/32/135_2.png) [@steveintheforest](https://www.sotonians.com/u/steveintheforest)\ **Post date:** [6 March 2017 07:48 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/the-walled-off-hotel-bethlehem-the-worst-view-in-the-world/1409/4 "2017-03-06T07:48:37Z")
I’ve got a lot of time for Banksy as well. Not only is he a damn fine artist but he can make as big statement in a single piece of work that many political writers could in a whole book. Not only that but it’s quite impressive how he’s managed to maintain his mystery and credibility after all these years, without becoming cheesy and dated. ---
**Author:** ![saintbletch](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saintbletch/32/618_2.png) [@saintbletch](https://www.sotonians.com/u/saintbletch)\ **Post date:** [6 March 2017 08:10 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/the-walled-off-hotel-bethlehem-the-worst-view-in-the-world/1409/5 "2017-03-06T08:10:48Z")
![](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/6/7/67660fd98dbbfa5d22c39b0e6e34b233e4a3a6e5.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![steveintheforest](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/steveintheforest/32/135_2.png) [@steveintheforest](https://www.sotonians.com/u/steveintheforest)\ **Post date:** [6 March 2017 08:23 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/the-walled-off-hotel-bethlehem-the-worst-view-in-the-world/1409/6 "2017-03-06T08:23:54Z")
Lol ---
**Author:** ![pap](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/pap/32/74795_2.png) [@pap](https://www.sotonians.com/u/pap)\ **Post date:** [6 March 2017 09:36 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/the-walled-off-hotel-bethlehem-the-worst-view-in-the-world/1409/7 "2017-03-06T09:36:46Z")
It does say something when one of our most celebrated modern artists, at least with some of the most substantive stuff to say, feels that he has to prosecute his work under a pseudonym. Banksy is the Batman of artists. ---
**Author:** ![lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/lifeintheslowlane/32/690_2.png) [@lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/u/lifeintheslowlane)\ **Post date:** [6 March 2017 10:42 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/the-walled-off-hotel-bethlehem-the-worst-view-in-the-world/1409/8 "2017-03-06T10:42:42Z")
This is a Banksy I took last year in Brighton. I say “a Banksy” it is in fact a copy of the original Banksy that, like far too many of them, disappear overnight and mysteriously reappear in an art auction-house. ![](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/0/8/0894c6bfff309755b1d18cb657b8f9b13e92f257.jpeg) > **[Banksy's Kissing Coppers – taken from a pub wall in Brighton – sells for...](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/feb/19/banksy-mural-kissing-coppers-sells-us)** > > Famous artwork sells in Miami but two other pieces from the elusive Bristol street artist fail to meet their reserves ---
**Author:** ![steveintheforest](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/steveintheforest/32/135_2.png) [@steveintheforest](https://www.sotonians.com/u/steveintheforest)\ **Post date:** [6 March 2017 10:50 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/the-walled-off-hotel-bethlehem-the-worst-view-in-the-world/1409/9 "2017-03-06T10:50:32Z")
Probably something to do with the fact his choice of canvas is someone else’s property and therefore illegal. ---
**Author:** ![pap](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/pap/32/74795_2.png) [@pap](https://www.sotonians.com/u/pap)\ **Post date:** [6 March 2017 10:56 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/the-walled-off-hotel-bethlehem-the-worst-view-in-the-world/1409/10 "2017-03-06T10:56:28Z")
Yeah, there’s a somewhat \_bigger \_dispute over property going on there. Y’know, like a whole country stolen. ---
**Author:** ![steveintheforest](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/steveintheforest/32/135_2.png) [@steveintheforest](https://www.sotonians.com/u/steveintheforest)\ **Post date:** [6 March 2017 11:04 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/the-walled-off-hotel-bethlehem-the-worst-view-in-the-world/1409/11 "2017-03-06T11:04:13Z")
lol … I know that ---
**Author:** ![pap](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/pap/32/74795_2.png) [@pap](https://www.sotonians.com/u/pap)\ **Post date:** [6 March 2017 11:46 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/the-walled-off-hotel-bethlehem-the-worst-view-in-the-world/1409/12 "2017-03-06T11:46:22Z")
I know that stating that fact gets your comment banned off the Guardian 🙂