Long-lost Banksy mural rediscovered and restored in New Orleans. Here’s how to see it.

It’s an artistic resurrection. A graffiti mural by international art superstar Banksy, which was defaced and demolished, has been rediscovered and restored. The rescued painting will go on display Friday in a Central Business District hotel. The artwork, which depicts a child playing on a rope swing made from a life preserver, was one of the 17 Hurricane Katrina-inspired murals that the secretive British street artist produced during a visit to New Orleans in 2008. The poetic piece that captured the poignancy of the recovery era appeared on the exterior wall of a flooded neighborhood saloon that stood near North Claiborne Avenue in the Lower Ninth Ward. The child using a life preserver as a tire swing near the corner of Claiborne Avenue and Reynes Street in the Lower 9th Ward was one of Banksy’s simplest and most poignant images. It was soon defaced with red paint.   (Staff Photo, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune). Ruining the work of a master Despite Banksy’s renown, not everyone appreciated his designs, which were sometimes painted without permission of property owners. For reasons unknown, a man arrived not long after the mural was finished and obliterated it with scarlet spray paint. Sometime after that, the...