It feels like a bit of a prank, and one with an uncertain tone that hovers between wanting to explore the inner creative life of the artist and sending up the pretentiousness of some of the modern art world.
In a trademark on-the-nose bit of anti-capitalist pranking, the street artist Banksy apparently destroyed one of his own iconic Girl with Balloon paintings when it shredded itself into ribbons immediately after being auctioned at Sotheby's for the casual price of £860,000 ($1.1 million).
Jarrett went on to describe the prank as a bit of "Queensland humor" and the article as "bollocks".
A bit of Twitter commentary on the Tracey Morgan "prank" from Yvette Nicole Brown of Community: "Nice to see black folks at the Emmy's.
The geniuses behind this video smartly let viewers in on the prank, and offer a bit of the behind-the-curtain magic involved with bringing a movie such as "Carrie" to life.
That this was some odd kind of prank.
Elsewhere, the site plays recordings of prank phone calls.
The very first release was a sort of prank.
The whole thing feels like some kind of prank".
I kept hoping this was some sort of prank.
