{"id":32077,"date":"2019-11-08T12:57:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T12:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=32077"},"modified":"2019-11-08T12:57:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T12:57:08","slug":"vol-exclusive-iconic-banksy-mural-vandalised-just-days-after-it-was-uncovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/vol-exclusive-iconic-banksy-mural-vandalised-just-days-after-it-was-uncovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Banksy mural vandalised days after it was uncovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Banksy&#8217;s hidden artwork was vandalised just days after it was uncovered from behind building works.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Banksy mural from 2008 was unveiled in Notting Hill this past week.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32085\" style=\"width: 424px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32085\" class=\"wp-image-32085\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2019\/11\/IMG_6332.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"310\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-32085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Ani Puncheva<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The mural is located in the heart of Notting Hill at the corner of Acklam and Portobello Road.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> It is widely known as \u2018The Painter\u2019 and illustrates famous Spanish painter Diego Vel\u00e1zquez holding a paintbrush and writing Banksy\u2019s name in big red graffiti style letters. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, someone decided to give Banksy\u2019s piece an additional detail on its left corner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Luckily the mural is covered by glass that protects it. That way the original artwork remains undamaged.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aZ7bxJK7Dss]<\/p>\n<p>Words: Ani Puncheva<\/p>\n<p>Photos: Ani Puncheva<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banksy&#8217;s hidden artwork was vandalised just days after it was uncovered from behind building works. The Banksy mural from 2008 was unveiled in Notting Hill this past week. The mural is located in the heart&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":32084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19,84,93],"tags":[553,691,3769,4450,6538,6753],"class_list":["post-32077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-breaking-news","category-london","category-news","tag-art","tag-banksy","tag-london","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-voice-of-london"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}