{"id":606973,"date":"2026-05-27T17:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/606973\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T17:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:18:09","slug":"newcastle-street-artwork-vandalised-one-day-after-being-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/606973\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle street artwork vandalised one day after being unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A council has condemned the &#8220;senseless damage&#8221; of its new public artwork which was defaced only a day after being unveiled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Street art in Byker in Newcastle, created in the underpass between Potts Street and Shields Road and revealed on Tuesday, has been sprayed over with a graffiti tag.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The work was created as part of Newcastle City Council&#8217;s Inclusive, Healthy, Vibrant High Streets Project by Newcastle artist Benji Spence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Jen Hartley said: &#8220;We are both disappointed and sad to see what has happened to this amazing art so soon after it was unveiled.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A council has condemned the &#8220;senseless damage&#8221; of its new public artwork which was defaced only a day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-606973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}