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Steve Lazarides & Banksy: 10 FAQs Behind the Lens

September 6, 2025

Every great artist has a witness. For Banksy, that witness was Steve Lazarides. Long before the shredded canvas, the auction spectacles, or the million-pound headlines, there was a photographer from Newcastle with a Nikon slung over his shoulder and an instinct for the underground. Lazarides didn’t just take pictures; he became Banksy’s agent, fixer, and first chronicler […]

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A Decade Since Dismaland: Barry Cawston on Banksy’s Legacy at Weston Museum

September 3, 2025

This autumn, Weston Museum presents an evocative exhibition marking the tenth anniversary of one of the most provocative artistic interventions of the 21st century: Banksy’s Dismaland. Opening on 13 September 2025, A Decade Since Dismaland revisits the iconic “bemusement park” through the lens of acclaimed photographer Barry Cawston, whose work captured both the spectacle within the Tropicana and the socio-cultural […]

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Graffiti Writer in the Spotlight – 10FOOT

September 1, 2025

From the steel tunnels of the London Underground to the towering heights of urban infrastructure, British graffiti writer 10Foot has turned city architecture into raw, uncompromising territory. His iconic tag, a blur of motion, risk and rebellion, has become one of London’s most potent visual signatures. Image copyright GraffitiStreet Born into London’s clandestine graffiti scene, […]

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ETHER by SNIK: Hand: Cut Layers and Folklore at Varberg’s Wallstreet Festival, Sweden

August 31, 2025

Set between the histories of Engelska Parken and Socitetsparken, Varberg now hosts ETHER, a breathtaking mural by stencil duo SNIK. The Figure and the Crown At the mural’s centre, a crowned figure stands as if drawn from both myth and memory. Her eyes are closed, face softened in stillness, yet the golden crown above speaks of […]

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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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