{"id":4409,"date":"2025-09-09T06:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/4409\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T06:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:32:07","slug":"new-banksy-work-at-londons-royal-courts-immediately-covered-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/4409\/","title":{"rendered":"New Banksy Work at London&#8217;s Royal Courts Immediately Covered Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tA new mural by the famous street artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/banksy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_banksy\" data-tag=\"banksy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Banksy<\/a> at the Royal Court of Justice, showing a judge using a gavel to beat a protestor, was soon covered up and guarded by security. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBanksy confirmed the authenticity of the work on the wall of the Queen\u2019s Building through <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOVoHlVDMIU\/?igsh=NnVrM2Zkb3Z5Zmo2&amp;img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\">a post on Instagram on September 8<\/a>. A protestor is shown lying on the ground in anguish while holding a white sign with red splash marks that resemble blood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe graffiti artist has more than 13.3 million followers on the social media platform.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-08-at-11.42.32-AM.png\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-08-at-11.42.32-AM.png\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"736\" width=\"846\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tThe image Banksy posted on his Instagram account on September 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/sep\/08\/court-staff-cover-up-banksy-image-of-judge-beating-a-protester\" target=\"_blank\">Locals told the Guardian<\/a> the image was in reference to recent arrests at a pro-Palestine protest in London on September 6. \u201cI think it\u2019s disgusting that they would just cover it up,\u201d one local named Matteo told the Guardian. \u201cThey are clearly afraid of the response this will get.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe newspaper also reported almost 900 people were detained by police during the demonstration against the banning of the protest group, Palestine Action.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new mural by the famous street artist Banksy at the Royal Court of Justice, showing a judge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,5251,438,146,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-4409","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-banksy","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-il","16":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}