{"id":642292,"date":"2026-05-01T07:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/642292\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T07:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:58:08","slug":"new-banksy-sculpture-appears-to-show-politician-blinded-by-his-own-flag-arts-and-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/642292\/","title":{"rendered":"New Banksy sculpture appears to show politician blinded by his own flag | Arts and Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsFeed<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead u-inline \">Banksy has unveiled a new sculpture of a man stepping off a stone base with his face obscured by a flag. The overnight installation in Waterloo Place, London, was revealed in a video shared by the artist, and has drawn fans of his politically charged works.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 1 May 20261 May 2026<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share-nodes<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NewsFeed Banksy has unveiled a new sculpture of a man stepping off a stone base with his face&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,45529,458,459,64,63,460,134,2057,221876,84,221877,3586],"class_list":["post-642292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-culture","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-europe","tag-newsfeed","tag-politics","tag-show-types","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642292","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=642292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}