{"id":246488,"date":"2025-12-22T21:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T21:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/246488\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T21:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T21:15:10","slug":"banksy-unveils-new-art-in-london-following-speculation-over-murals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/246488\/","title":{"rendered":"Banksy unveils new art in London following speculation over murals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elusive street artist Banksy<\/a> appeared to confirm Monday that a new mural in London, depicting two children lying down and pointing up at the sky, is his latest work. <\/p>\n

The artist posted two photos of the artwork on his official Instagram account Monday, hours after its appearance on a wall on the side of a building in Bayswater, west London sparked speculation over whether Banksy was behind it.<\/p>\n

The black and white mural, painted above a garage, depicts two figures dressed in winter hats and boots lying on the ground, with one of them pointing a finger upwards. <\/p>\n

An identical image appeared at the foot of a tower in central London on Monday, but the graffiti artist did not post that version on his account.<\/p>\n

Banksy began his career spray-painting buildings in Bristol, England, and has become one of the world\u2019s best-known artists. His paintings and installations sell for millions of dollars at auction<\/a> and have drawn thieves<\/a> and vandals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While his work is often critical of government policy on migration and war, the latest artwork did not seem to carry an overt political message.<\/p>\n

In September he made headlines with a mural<\/a> showing a judge holding a gavel looming over an unarmed protester holding a blood-splattered placard. <\/p>\n

That piece, which appeared on an external wall of a Royal Courts of Justice building, was swiftly covered up and authorities said it had to be removed out of consideration of the building’s historical significance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elusive street artist Banksy appeared to confirm Monday that a new mural in London, depicting two children lying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[128882,584,365,362,363,364,366,18,117,3334,19,17,38328,12167,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-246488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-128882","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-arts","11":"tag-arts-and-design","12":"tag-artsanddesign","13":"tag-artsdesign","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-eire","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-general-news","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-protests-and-demonstrations","21":"tag-visual-arts","22":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115765295313665125","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}