{"id":426857,"date":"2026-09-05T05:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T05:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/426857\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T05:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T05:32:22","slug":"dallas-whaling-wall-has-new-whale-artwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/426857\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Whaling Wall has new whale artwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/img_6541-scaled-e1788551919267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; The infamous whale wall in Dallas has been repainted with a new whale\u2026 sort of.<\/p>\n<p>   Killer Whale <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Photos taken by a FOX 4 photographer on Friday showed whale graffiti painted on the side of the building where world-famous environmental artist Wyland\u2019s whale mural once was.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The new artist added the caption &#8220;killer whale&#8221; to their work.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/img_6542-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials have not yet commented on the graffiti.<\/p>\n<p> Dallas Whaling Wall  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/3o5uzb2v62e214oo.jpg\" alt=\"Dallas paints over decades-old whale mural for World Cup\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/3o5uzb2v62e214oo.jpg\" alt=\"Dallas paints over decades-old whale mural for World Cup\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image vod-poster-image--embedded\" data-v-5173a8d8=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The artist known simply as Wyland painted the whales in Downtown Dallas nearly 30 years ago to promote awareness of marine pollution. He even received a key to the city of Dallas when the piece was finished in 1999.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Wyland\u2019s work includes 100 large murals in landlocked cities across the globe. The eight-story Dallas mural spanned two sides of the building at 505 North Akard Street.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">In May, crews began painting over the mural to make way for a mural promoting the FIFA World Cup. Only a small portion remains untouched.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Wyland has also filed a lawsuit against FIFA for authorizing the destruction of the mural, saying &#8220;though FIFA claims they are working to develop art for the host city, in truth, they defaced a historic fixture of the host city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story comes from a FOX 4 photographer and past news coverage.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\/downtown-dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Downtown Dallas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/viral\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Viral<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article DALLAS &#8211; The infamous whale wall in Dallas has been repainted with a new whale\u2026 sort of.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,581,104,103,109,223,216,393,1711],"class_list":["post-426857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-downtown-dallas","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us","tag-viral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}