But the fact he has painted on an historic court has divided opinion.<\/p>\n
Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Timothy said: “It’s outrageous that tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money \u2013 maybe more \u2013 will have to be spent cleaning up after Banksy, who seems to believe he has a right to deface public buildings with impunity.<\/p>\n
“Our courts are a national symbol of justice and the rule of law.<\/p>\n
“Banksy’s vandalism should be stopped and he should foot the bill for the costs he imposes on others.”<\/p>\n
However, art critic Estelle Lovatt defended Banksy’s work and pointed to the benefits for tourism: “Some people visit Buckingham Palace and others visit Banksy’s art. <\/p>\n
“His work brings people together in a way that politics can divide us. He’s like the Pied Piper or a town crier. <\/p>\n
“It can be intimidating if a mural appears on your building, in terms of the crowds, but he makes art accessible because there’s no gallery fee.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But the fact he has painted on an historic court has divided opinion. Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Timothy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732074,"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-732073","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\/732073","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=732073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}