{"id":365265,"date":"2025-12-22T20:58:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/365265\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T20:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:58:06","slug":"banksy-unveils-new-art-in-london-following-speculation-over-murals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/365265\/","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":365266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[198426,4225,449,458,459,64,63,460,134,482,15392,36795,1346],"class_list":["post-365265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-198426","tag-article","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-general-news","tag-protests-and-demonstrations","tag-visual-arts","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}