{"id":205475,"date":"2025-12-22T17:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/205475\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T17:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:58:09","slug":"artwork-thought-to-be-by-banksy-appears-at-foot-of-london-skyscraper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/205475\/","title":{"rendered":"Artwork thought to be by Banksy appears at foot of London skyscraper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The artwork appeared beneath the Centre Point building near Tottenham Court Road in central London on Monday (Stefan Rousseau\/PA)<\/p>\n

Two people lie on the ground looking up at a London skyscraper in the latest artwork thought to be by graffiti artist Banksy.<\/p>\n

The work shows a child in a beanie hat and wellingtons lying on the floor next to another person in a bobble hat who points up to the building and sky above.<\/p>\n

It appeared beneath the Centre Point building near Tottenham Court Road in central London on Monday.<\/p>\n

Banksy, whose real identity has not been revealed, has not claimed responsibility for the artwork.<\/p>\n

The same artwork has also appeared on the side of a building a few miles away in Queen’s Mews in Bayswater.<\/p>\n

In September the mysterious artist made headlines with his mural depicting a protester lying on the ground holding a blood-spattered placard, while a judge, in a wig and gown, looms over him, wielding a gavel.<\/p>\n

The painting appeared on an external wall of the Queen’s Building, in the Royal Courts of Justice complex.<\/p>\n

It was swiftly covered up and guarded by security staff, before work began to remove it.<\/p>\n

The art was interpreted by some as a comment on the arrest of hundreds of people for supporting Palestine Action by holding up placards at protests.<\/p>\n

Palestine Action was banned by the Government as a terrorist group in July after activists damaged RAF planes.<\/p>\n

The court service confirmed that it was legally obliged to maintain the character of the building because of its listed status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The artwork appeared beneath the Centre Point building near Tottenham Court Road in central London on Monday (Stefan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-205475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}