{"id":208977,"date":"2025-12-24T18:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208977\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T18:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:18:11","slug":"new-bansky-mural-appears-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208977\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bansky mural appears in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People walk past a new street artwork near the Centre Point building in central London on Monday. It&#8217;s identical to another artwork elsewhere in London confirmed to be by Banksy. Photo by Tolga Akmen\/EPA<\/p>\n<p>Dec. 23 (UPI) &#8212; Street artist Banksy has confirmed he&#8217;s behind a new mural that appeared this week on a west London wall.<\/p>\n<p>The new Banksy mural, confirmed on his Instagram, shows two children in winter clothes lying on their backs, one pointing skyward.\n<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/dec\/22\/london-new-banksy-christmas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">artwork appeared above<\/a> garages on Queen&#8217;s Mews in Bayswater, near Notting Hill.<\/p>\n<p>A nearly identical image also surfaced near the Centre Point tower in central London, though Banksy has not claimed that version, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/banksy-new-mural-queens-mews-centrepoint-london-2733570\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Artnet reported<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Some experts, including Banksy specialist Jasper Tordoff, suggest the work&#8217;s night sky of possible artificial stars carries Banksy&#8217;s signature social satire.<\/p>\n<p>But others view it as commentary on child homelessness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People walk past a new street artwork near the Centre Point building in central London on Monday. It&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,40,386],"class_list":{"0":"post-208977","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-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208977","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=208977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}