{"id":200162,"date":"2025-12-24T19:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T19:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/200162\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T19:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T19:15:10","slug":"new-bansky-mural-appears-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/200162\/","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":200163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69,40,377],"class_list":["post-200162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-top-news","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}