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New Banksy Mural at Royal Court of Justice (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Awoo@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net
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Barriers were erected around it and they have now covered it up.

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[–] TrustedFeline@hexbear.net 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

IMO banksy is usually pretty lame, but I like the relevance here. Would've been nice to show what the protestor was protesting tho... Like, is it one of the hundreds of protestors for Gaza that were arrested? Or is it some reform party goon protesting immigration? Given the timing and Banksy's history (they did a mural on the apartheid wall 20 years ago), it's clearly a reference to the Gaza protestors. But subtext is for cowards

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But subtext is for cowards

they don't want to upset thier clientele of balenciaga, hermes, armani, etc. buyers while dog whistling to the rest of us.

[–] TrustedFeline@hexbear.net 24 points 2 days ago

If Banksy was for real, that painting would've blown up instead of partially shredding

[–] larrikin99@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

it would've been braver if he just wrote "Support Palestine Action -Bankƨy" instead of any satirically juxtaposed stencil art.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 47 points 2 days ago

Glad they have thumb headed gammon cops outside to stop the public from getting any funny ideas.

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hopefully someone decides to sell it for millions and they cut the wall out of the courthouse. That would be chefs-kiss

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

I think that happened with one of the banksy's works on a portion of the West Bank's wall

[–] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There have to be cameras covering every inch of that block. I wonder how he pulled it off.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

I would block in the wall with a fake council van.

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 day ago

he's probably some kind of a rich guy doing this shit and the authorities know who he is but have been ordered to pretend that they don't

[–] mayakovsky@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is why you make political art more explicit. It's already ham-fisted as usual, but couldn't even bother to make anything clear.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Best high quality version of the mural I could find, for anyone else interested:

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

For some reason this is not loading for me on either Hexbear or your instance.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Does that work for you?

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 6 points 2 days ago

Not hosted on the instance, but a direct link to it on gulftoday.ae (I know nothing about them btw, just found the image there). Hold on, let me put it on a host.