{"id":259978,"date":"2026-05-06T00:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/259978\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T00:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:36:08","slug":"160-piece-banksy-exhibit-heading-to-tampa-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/259978\/","title":{"rendered":"160-Piece Banksy Exhibit Heading To Tampa This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/banksyexhibit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Art of Banksy<\/a>, which opens Aug. 1 and runs for a limited time, only Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays that month, features works from the world\u2019s largest authenticated collection of privately owned Banksy artwork.<\/p>\n<p>Items on display will include prints, canvases, screenprints, sculptures, unique works and limited-edition pieces, the Straz Center said. <\/p>\n<p>The immersive display explores the artist\u2019s history and the mystery of his identity as they take in his art. <\/p>\n<p>The show includes several iconic pieces, such as \u201cGirl and Balloon\u201d and \u201cRude Copper,\u201d in addition to lesser-known works. <\/p>\n<p>As an exclusive, the exhibit also features the original \u201cFlower Thrower,\u201d which was made by Banksy for his then girlfriend, Leonie Laws, in 1997, alongside video testimonial from her, the theater said. <\/p>\n<p>A signed, previously unseen work, \u201cMona Lisa,\u201d originally purchased directly from Banksy by actor Brad Pitt, is also included in the show. After it was returned to the artist in 2022, he transformed the piece into something new and it\u2019s now on display in the U.S. for the first time. <\/p>\n<p>The Art of Banksy has toured the world with stops in Melbourne, Tel Aviv, Auckland, Toronto, Miami, Gothenburg, Sydney and London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Art of Banksy, which opens Aug. 1 and runs for a limited time, only Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-259978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}