In the midst of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Banksy, the anonymous, U.K.-based street artist, has shared a new piece of art… but with a twist.
The new artwork appears to come from the comfort of his home.
In the installation, which Banksy shared on his official Instagram page Wednesday morning, the artist’s signature rats are seen running amok and causing chaos in what appears to be his own bathroom.
Banksy’s much-loved graffiti pieces are typically found in remote and obscure locations across the globe, however as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic, it seems he was left with no choice but to work from home.
Though he’s done indoor installations in the past, it seems to be the first in Banksy’s nearly three-decade-long career in which he’s given his fans and followers a look into his home — or at least a portion of it.
In the piece, Bansky not only utilizes his graffiti talents but also some of the items found within his bathroom, including a light switch and a towel holder, from which two of the reckless rats are seen swinging.
Another one of the infamous rodents seems to be carelessly urinating into Banksy’s toilet as well, making a mess all over the seat, while one has jumped onto a tube of toothpaste, causing it to splatter all over the wall.
Meanwhile, other pests seem to have displaced the artist’s mirror, while another is seen it its reflection making red markings on the opposite wall.
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“My wife hates when I work from home,” Banksy wrote in the caption.
Updates and additional information regarding Banksy and his artwork can be found through the artist’s official website.
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LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.
More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.
The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.
They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.
“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”
It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.
Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.
“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.
