{"id":90582,"date":"2025-07-25T05:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/90582\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T05:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:38:14","slug":"banksy-work-the-migrant-child-being-restored-in-venice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/90582\/","title":{"rendered":"Banksy work ‘The Migrant Child’ being restored in Venice"},"content":{"rendered":"

MILAN (AP) \u2014 Art restorers have removed a deteriorating piece of graffiti by the street artist Banksy<\/a> titled \u201cThe Migrant Child\u201d from the side of a building overlooking a Venetian canal to preserve the work for future public display, officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n

The removal from the wall of Palazzo San Pantalon was carried out in consultation with people close to the secretive British street artist, according to the Venice-based bank Banca Ifis\u2019 art program that promotes art and culture.<\/p>\n

The artwork depicting a shipwrecked child holding a pink smoke bomb and wearing a lifejacket appeared along Rio di San Pantalon in Venice in May 2019, and was acknowledged by Banksy. Marked on online maps, it has become a tourist destination.<\/p>\n

But six years of neglect had led to the deterioration of about a third of the work, the bank said. <\/p>\n

The restoration is being overseen by Federico Borgogni, who previously removed dust and cleaned the surface before detaching a section of the palazzo\u2019s facade overnight Wednesday, Banca Ifis said in a statement. The bank is financing the project, but didn\u2019t release the cost of the operation.<\/p>\n

The bank intends to display the work to the public as part of free cultural events organized by Ifis art once restoration is completed. No time frame was given.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN (AP) \u2014 Art restorers have removed a deteriorating piece of graffiti by the street artist Banksy titled…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":90583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,52715,64,1033,171,60282,57,409,2219,1165,67,132,68,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-90582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-banksy","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-federico-borgogni","15":"tag-general-news","16":"tag-immigration","17":"tag-italy","18":"tag-lifestyle","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114912264421421096","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}