In this picture made available Thursday July 24, 2025, Banksy’s work The Migrant Child is removed from the facade of Palazzo San Pantalon in Venice, Italy, to complete its rescue.

MILAN (AP) — Art restorers have removed a deteriorating piece of graffiti by the street artist Banksy titled “The Migrant Child” from the side of a building overlooking a Venetian canal to ...

It had been in place for less than a decade but Migrant Child, the Banksy work displayed on the side of a Venetian canal-side building, had already reached a point of needing a touch-up.

Art restorers have removed a deteriorating piece of graffiti by the street artist Banksy titled “The Migrant Child” from the side of a building overlooking a Venetian canal.

Banksy’s The Migrant Child is removed from the facade of Palazzo San Pantalon in Venice (Ifis Art via AP) But six years of neglect had led to the deterioration of about a third of the work, the ...