{"id":28105,"date":"2026-05-04T07:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/28105\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T07:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:57:07","slug":"banksy-confirms-he-made-new-statue-of-man-blinded-by-flag-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/28105\/","title":{"rendered":"Banksy confirms he made new statue of man blinded by flag in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/banksy-statue-getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">The new Banksy statue, depicting a man holding a flag which covers his face, is seen in Waterloo Place in Central London. The elusive street artist has now confirmed that he created the artwork. (Photo by Vuk Valcic\/SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty  <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Street artist Banksy confirmed in a video that he created the statue that appeared in central London earlier this week and offered a glimpse of how he did it.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"LNFX\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Big picture view:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">On Wednesday, Londoners first spotted the statue, which depicts a man about to march off a plinth while carrying a flag that wrapped itself around his head, blinding him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The statue bore Banksy\u2019s signature, and a video posted onto Instagram briefly shows how it was unloaded in secret \u2014 as well as a man who told an off-camera interviewer that he did not care for it.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"LNFX\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Officials in the British capital welcomed the new work by the celebrated artist and told Reuters that they have no plans to remove it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"LNFX\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">&#8220;We welcome Banksy&#8217;s latest sculpture in Westminster, which makes a striking addition to the city&#8217;s vibrant public art scene,&#8221; a council spokesperson wrote, indicating they have already taken steps to protect it.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livenowfox.com\/news\/alex-zanardi-former-f1-driver-turned-paralympic-gold-medalist-dead-59\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Zanardi, former F1 driver turned Paralympic gold medalist, dead at 59<\/a><\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"LNFX\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The statue sits amid other sculptures on a traffic island in Waterloo Place, near Buckingham Palace. It was placed close to those of King Edward VII and Florence Nightingale.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Banksy, whose work first appeared in the 1990s, is better known for his spray-painted art on buildings. The world-famous artist\u2019s paintings and installations have been sold for millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this article was taken from Reuters and the Associated Press. This story was reported from Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livenowfox.com\/tag\/world\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article The new Banksy statue, depicting a man holding a flag which covers his face, is seen in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[27,18,343],"class_list":{"0":"post-28105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-london","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116515244792397591","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}