Banksy’s latest NYC mural protests artist’s imprisonment

Banksy is back in New York.

The anonymous UK artist unveiled his latest work on Thursday at the corner of Houston Street and the Bowery.

The 70-foot-long mural protests the incarceration of a Turkish-Kurdish artist named Zehra Dogan.

Dogan was imprisoned a year ago for her own public art piece — a painting depicting the destruction of a Kurdish town, with Turkey’s flag flying over it.

She’s tweeted that she was sentenced for showing “Turkish flags on destroyed buildings.”

Banksy’s tribute shows hash marks that represent jail bars and the number of days that Dogan has been in jail.

An image of Dogan’s face is also shown in the work.

The location chosen by Banksy has previously hosted street art by Keith Haring and hot international street artists Os Gêmeos and JR. Banksy told the New York Times of the piece in a statement of his motivation for the work: “I really feel for her. I’ve painted things much more worthy of a custodial sentence.”

He collaborated on it with another street artist, called Borf.

Prolific Banksy also put up another piece — albeit, one more whimsical — of a rat running inside of a clock on 14th Street.

Back in 2013, Banksy launched a monthlong “residency” in New York.