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Faith 47: The Heart of the World, San Quentin Prison, USA

August 30, 2025

Faith 47’s ‘The Heart of the World’
places tenderness inside one of America’s most symbolic prison spaces, turning a San Quentin wall into a meditation on spirit, dignity and the human centre we carry with us.

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Case Maclaim’s “Funny Heartache” Mural in France Explores Female Visibility and Emotional Resilience

August 25, 2025

Painted to mark the 10th anniversary of Street Art Boulogne-sur-Mer, one of France’s most respected public art festivals, the Case Maclaim‘s “Funny Heartache” occupies a tall façade within the city’s historic centre. The mural depicts a young woman resting her chin in her hand, her expression suspended between amusement and introspection. Her face, painted in Case’s […]

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Brea’s latest Mural: A Tribute lost to Nature, Valle del Jerte, Spain

August 25, 2025

Brea Acuadros mural is a striking new artwork at the rural house Molino del Jerte  in Navaconcejo, located by the river in the heart of Valle del Jerte. Created at the beginning of the summer, the mural was conceived as a work designed to integrate with the mountain landscape, blending into the valley’s lush environment rather than competing […]

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From Bronze to Barrio: Miss Van’s Surrealist Tribute to Leonora Carrington, Mexico

August 24, 2025

French-born, Barcelona-based street artist Miss Van (Vanessa Alice) is renowned for her signature sloe-eyed, moth-masked, burlesque poupées. Her wonderful ethereal muses have adorned walls around the world for more than two decades, serving as extensions of the artist’s own sensibility. On her recent travels to San Luis Potosí, Miss Van unveils a beautiful homage to surrealist Leonora Carrington, deepening her […]

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Nils Westergard’s New Mural: Inspired by Amsterdam’s Oudezijdskolk canal

August 22, 2025

Nils Westergard, the Belgian-American street artist now firmly based in Amsterdam, has unveiled a striking new mural in the heart of the city. Known for his monumental portraits that fuse realism with allegory, Westergard has steadily become part of the city’s cultural fabric, not only through his walls but also through his ongoing photographic project […]

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Mornings with a Smile: RESTLESS Paints Mateus for Cor de Chelas, Portugal

August 18, 2025

RESTLESS, known for those bright yellow characters that pop up on streets (and sometimes skin), has painted a new large-scale mural for Cor de Chelas in Lisbon. The subject is Mateus, a local worker whose upbeat spirit has become a quiet landmark in the neighbourhood. Mornings with a Smile: RESTLESS Paints Mateus for Cor de Chelas, Portugal As […]

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Restless in Paris: Stories on the Streets

August 9, 2025

Portuguese artist Restless has recently brought his characters to the streets of Paris. Known for his mixed-media portraits of everyday people, Restless pairs each image with a few lines of text concise, unpolished, and deeply human revealing fragments of their inner worlds. These figures are left in public spaces, waiting to be stumbled upon and wondered about, […]

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BKFOXX : I Hope Our Kids Will Save Us, Wynwood Miami

August 1, 2025

Street Artist BKFOXX presents I Hope Our Kids Will Save Us, a site-responsive photographic and performative work realised at The Calle Collective in Wynwood, Miami. Produced with wxllspace and curated by Jill Weisberg, the project exists as both a live installation and a time-based visual document, accompanied by a publicly released time lapse and full-length video. “This piece was a response to all […]

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Banksy ‘Migrant Child’ Mural Removed from Palazzo San Pantalon, Italy

August 1, 2025

Banksy’s Migrant Child, the life-jacketed figure raising a pink distress flare, has been removed from the canal-facing wall of Palazzo San Pantalon in Venice for conservation. The delicate overnight detachment was carried out in late July 2025 after scaffolding and site safeguarding began in mid-June. Officials say the intervention was undertaken in consultation with people close to […]

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Portuguese Artist Restless Brings His Playful Characters to Sebastianas Festival 2025

August 1, 2025

This year’s Sebastianas festival in Freamunde had an extra splash of colour thanks to Portuguese street artist Restless, whose bold, cartoon-style characters have been brightening urban walls across Europe. Known for his signature yellow figures, playful expressions, and scenes inspired by everyday life, Restless brought his unique style to one of Portugal’s most beloved celebrations. The […]

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The Art of Celebration: Street Art Gifts for Weddings, Birthdays & Milestones

July 31, 2025

Across centuries, art has marked life’s greatest moments. From portraits commissioned to celebrate unions to sculptures created to honour legacies, gifting art has always carried a resonance beyond the material. Today, street art, born from the walls of cities and now commanding global attention, offers a strikingly modern way to commemorate weddings, birthdays, and milestone […]

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