The artwork was installed under the cloak of night this week, less than two months after a journalism investigation into Banksy’s true identity was published
The new statue was installed overnight in Waterloo Place. Vuk Valcic / SOPA Images / LightRocket / Getty Images
A new statue possibly by the artist Banksy was erected this week in the middle of the night in central London. The artwork depicts a suited man, blinded by the wind-blown flag he is carrying and walking unknowingly off the ledge of a tall pedestal.
When the sun came up on the statue Wednesday morning, people were quick to note Banksy’s signature scrawled along the base of the statue’s plinth.…
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