{"id":7466,"date":"2024-08-13T09:50:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T09:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/banksys-final-work-in-series-appears-on-london-zoo-gates\/"},"modified":"2024-08-13T09:50:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T09:50:50","slug":"banksys-final-work-in-series-appears-on-london-zoo-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/banksys-final-work-in-series-appears-on-london-zoo-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"Banksy&#8217;s final work in series appears on London Zoo gates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">An artwork appearing on the shutters of London Zoo has been confirmed as the latest and final image in Banksy&#8217;s surprise animal art trail across London.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">It shows a gorilla lifting the shutter to release a sea lion and birds, while other animals appear to look on from the inside.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">It is the ninth Banksy to appear in as many days in the capital.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">His latest work follows images that have popped up each morning since 5 August across London of a goat, elephants, monkeys, a wolf, pelicans, a cat, piranhas and a rhinoceros.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The BBC has been told by Banksy&#8217;s team this is to be the final work of the series, which has captured the attention of Banksy followers for more than a week.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The artist appears to have installed the works overnight on each occasion.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Crowds have been seen gathering after passers-by have spotted the works each morning, with many posting photos on social media.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Typically, Banksy has confirmed he is behind the creations at 13:00 BST each day, however, he has already announced the latest work on his <!-- --><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C-mm6DzMmZc\/?hl=en\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<!-- --><\/a> page.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">ZSL London Zoo responded on its own <!-- --><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C-ljFoAs7_R\/\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<!-- --><\/a> account: &#8220;Have our animals been helping to make people smile all over London this week?&#8221;<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c623qjpgew4o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artwork appearing on the shutters of London Zoo has been confirmed as the latest and final image in Banksy&#8217;s surprise animal art trail across London. It shows a gorilla lifting the shutter to release a sea lion and birds, while other animals appear to look on from the inside. It is the ninth Banksy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[2692,4248,1779,518,141,1537,81,3832],"class_list":["post-7466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","tag-appears","tag-banksys","tag-final","tag-gates","tag-london","tag-series","tag-work","tag-zoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7468,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466\/revisions\/7468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}