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Banksy’s Girl and Balloon on Found Landscape Sells for $18 Million

May 21, 2026

Banksy’s Girl and Balloon on Found Landscape has officially entered the top tier of the artist’s auction history after selling for US $18 million (£13.3 million) during Wednesday’s Fair Warning auction held at Tiffany & Co.’s Landmark store in New York. The result places the work among the three highest auction prices ever achieved for a Banksy […]

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Invader Launches New Mosaic Invasion Across the Philharmonie de Paris

May 19, 2026

Invader has launched a new invasion across the Philharmonie de Paris and the neighbouring Cité de la Musique, installing a series of mosaic works throughout Jean Nouvel’s iconic architectural complex in Paris, coinciding with the new Video Games & Music exhibition currently running there. The mosaics integrate directly into Jean Nouvel’s angular geometry and metallic surfaces. Photo […]

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Bisser Transforms Leuven’s Historic Walls Into a Fantastical Street Art Landscape

May 18, 2026

Belgian street artist Bisser has transformed a weathered brick corridor in Leuven’s Jozef Pierrestraat into a sprawling fantasy-inspired mural, turning one of the city’s overlooked architectural surfaces into a vivid work of contemporary public art. Stretching across the length of the historic wall, the Leuven mural unfolds as a layered narrative populated by mythical creatures, […]

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Banksy Auction Results: The 10 Highest Prices Ever Achieved

May 18, 2026

Banksy has become one of the most influential and culturally recognisable artists of the 21st century, with collectors spending tens of millions on the artist’s most iconic works. Banksy Shreds ‘Girl with Balloon’ Painting in Sotheby’s Auction Stunt, London 2018. Image © Banksy / Sotheby’s Auction House. From Love Is in the Bin shredding itself moments after […]

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Banksy’s Girl and Balloon on Found Landscape Heads to Auction With $18 Million Estimate

May 16, 2026

Banksy’s Girl and Balloon is heading to auction with an estimate of US $13 million to $18 million, bringing one of the artist’s most popular images back into focus at a moment when the Banksy market continues to gain populairty. Banksy’s Girl and Balloon on Found Landscape. Image copyright Fair Warning auction The 2012 work Girl and Balloon […]

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The Most Watched INVADER Artwork Ever Is Now Up for Auction

May 15, 2026

On 19 November 2015, the anonymous French street artist INVADER interrupted Stephen Colbert’s monologue without saying a single word. Disguised and moving quietly through the darkness above the Late Show bandstand, the artist climbed the staircase overlooking the stage at New York’s Ed Sullivan Theatre and installed a custom ceramic mosaic directly onto the exposed […]

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Lost Dreamers Above Seville: JDL Creates the World’s First Street Art in the Sky

May 14, 2026

High above the Andalusian landscape, somewhere between fear and freedom, Dutch street artist JDL transformed the sky itself into a canvas. What emerged is believed to be the world’s first street artwork created in freefall by a female artist, a project that pushes street art beyond walls, cities, and even gravity itself. Known internationally for […]

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The Crystal Ship 2026 marks a Landmark 10th Edition in Ostend, Belgium

May 11, 2026

The Crystal Ship 10th Anniversary returned to Ostend this spring with over 20 monumental murals and public artworks, celebrating a decade of transforming the Belgian coastal city into one of Europe’s leading open-air museums for contemporary urban art. Over ten years, The Crystal Ship has reshaped the visual identity of Ostend. Curated by Belgian actor […]

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Banksy Shares Pete the Street Charity Print Inspired by London Statue

May 10, 2026

British painter Peter Brown, known as Pete the Street, has received a major endorsement from Banksy after the anonymous artist shared Pete’s oil painting of the newly unveiled Waterloo Place sculpture on his official Instagram account today. The Banksy post, captioned simply “The scene in Pall Mall as recorded by Pete the Street,” places the plein-air artist at […]

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ROA Returns to The Crystal Ship with New Monumental Mural in Ostend, Belgium

May 9, 2026

Internationally acclaimed Belgian street artist ROA has returned to The Crystal Ship in Ostend with a new monumental mural created for the festival’s landmark 10th anniversary edition. The new ROA The Crystal Ship 2026 mural reflects Ostend’s coastal identity through monumental seabirds. Image copyright photographer Jules Césure and The Crystal Ship 2026 ROA, The Crystal Ship 2026, […]

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PichiAvo Unveils Athena Lefkos in Athens, Greece

May 9, 2026

The new PichiAvo Athens mural, Athena Lefkos, marks the internationally acclaimed Spanish duo’s first large-scale public artwork in Greece. Created in the heart of Athens, the monumental mural reinterprets the mythological figure of Athena through PichiAvo’s distinctive fusion of classical art and contemporary graffiti, creating a striking dialogue between ancient heritage and modern urban culture. PichiAvo working […]

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