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One Nation Under CCTV

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One Nation Under CCTV was a mural painted in 2007 by the anonymous English street artist Banksy on a wall on Newman Street in London, beside an actual closed-circuit television camera on a Royal Mail building. It showed a child in a red hooded top painting the mural title phrase on the wall while watched by a police officer and a dog. Westminster City Council ordered the work removed in 2008 on the grounds that it amounted to unlicensed advertising, and the mural was painted over in April 2009. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Painting 1
Year Created
2007 2
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Source One Nation Under CCTV (Wikipedia)

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1. One Nation Under CCTV (Wikipedia)
  • Genre reference
    One Nation Under CCTV was a mural painted in 2007 by the anonymous English street artist Banksy on a wall on Newman Street in London, beside an actual closed-circuit television camera on a Royal Mail building.
  • In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
    One Nation Under CCTV was a 2007 mural by graffiti artist Banksy on Newman Street in London. Painted on the wall of a building used by the Royal Mail, it depicted a child in a red hooded top painting the phrase, while being watche
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2. Wikidata: One Nation Under CCTV
  • Wikidata Q3352607, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)
  • Wikidata Q3352607, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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