{"id":630671,"date":"2026-05-08T09:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/630671\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T09:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:39:08","slug":"banksys-venice-mural-has-been-restored-and-will-now-tour-city-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/630671\/","title":{"rendered":"Banksy\u2019s Venice mural has been restored and will now tour city &#8211; The Art Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">A Banksy mural removed from the fa\u00e7ade of a 17th-century palazzo in Venice last year will tour the canals of the lagoon city this weekend after having been restored. <a class=\"transition-colors duration-default shadow-externalLink hover:text-red-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.veneziatoday.it\/cronaca\/restauro-banksy-viaggera-per-i-canali.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According to <\/a>Venezia Today, the revitalised work known as Migrant Child, was unveiled yesterday near the Arsenale, a Biennale site, following extensive conservation funded by the banking group Banca Ifis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">Migrant Child, which shows a child holding a flare in her hand and wearing a life vest, was sprayed onto a wall of the Palazzo San Pantalon, a lavish three-story residence on a canal in Venice\u2019s Santa Croce district, in 2019. Positioned just above the canal\u2019s waterline, it is one of only two works of art in Italy officially attributed to Banksy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">Italy\u2019s ministry of culture <a class=\"transition-all duration-default shadow-internalLink hover:text-red-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/2025\/07\/25\/venice-banksy-mural-removed-as-part-of-innovative-restoration-project\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced in 2023<\/a> that\u00a0the piece would be restored by Banca Ifis, sparking debate over whether the piece should be preserved or allowed to decay in situ. The bank purchased Palazzo San Pantalon the following year and commissioned Zaha Hadid Architects to work on the building&#8217;s restoration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">The mural\u2014seen as a reference to the global refugee crisis\u2014became a popular tourist attraction but six years of neglect and exposure to the elements caused it to fade, with about a third of the work having deteriorated. It underwent analysis and restoration under the supervision of Federico Borgogni, who also oversaw the 2021 removal of Banksy\u2019s\u00a0Aachoo!\u00a0from a Bristol house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0\" itemprop=\"text\">In an online statement, the bank says that \u201cBanksy&#8217;s work will once again be made accessible to the public as part of [some] free projects organised by Ifis art [the bank\u2019s cultural arm] in agreement with the authorities responsible for the protection of Venice&#8217;s artistic heritage.\u201d Banca Ifis was contacted regarding whether the mural would be returned to Palazzo San Pantalon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Banksy mural removed from the fa\u00e7ade of a 17th-century palazzo in Venice last year will tour the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,28942,19232,229,88,27562],"class_list":["post-630671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-banksy","tag-conservation","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-venice-biennale-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630671","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=630671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}