{"id":35130,"date":"2025-07-25T01:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T01:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/35130\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T01:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T01:35:08","slug":"banksy-work-the-migrant-child-being-restored-in-venice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/35130\/","title":{"rendered":"Banksy work &#8216;The Migrant Child&#8217; being restored in Venice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILAN (AP) \u2014 Art restorers have removed a deteriorating piece of graffiti by the <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/banksy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">street artist Banksy<\/a> titled \u201cThe Migrant Child\u201d from the side of a building overlooking a Venetian canal to preserve the work for future public display, officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The removal from the wall of Palazzo San Pantalon was carried out in consultation with people close to the secretive British street artist, according to the Venice-based bank Banca Ifis\u2019 art program that promotes art and culture.<\/p>\n<p>The artwork depicting a shipwrecked child holding a pink smoke bomb and wearing a lifejacket appeared along Rio di San Pantalon in Venice in May 2019, and was acknowledged by Banksy. Marked on online maps, it has become a tourist destination.<\/p>\n<p>But six years of neglect had led to the deterioration of about a third of the work, the bank said. <\/p>\n<p>The restoration is being overseen by Federico Borgogni, who previously removed dust and cleaned the surface before detaching a section of the palazzo\u2019s facade overnight Wednesday, Banca Ifis said in a statement. The bank is financing the project, but didn\u2019t release the cost of the operation.<\/p>\n<p>The bank intends to display the work to the public as part of free cultural events organized by Ifis art once restoration is completed. No time frame was given.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN (AP) \u2014 Art restorers have removed a deteriorating piece of graffiti by the street artist Banksy titled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,28942,28,229,88,28943,793,790,6801,149,965],"class_list":{"0":"post-35130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-banksy","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-federico-borgogni","16":"tag-general-news","17":"tag-immigration","18":"tag-italy","19":"tag-lifestyle","20":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}