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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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Moon Child Seville: RoamCouch’s Celestial Mural in Gifu, Japan

July 30, 2025

Moon Child Seville, a monumental mural by Japanese artist RoamCouch (Ryo Ogawa), reflects a deep night-sky vision unfolding like a dream preserved in paint. Installed in the artist’s home region of Hashima-gun, Gifu, Japan, the work transforms its site into a cinematic threshold, where street art becomes a form of contemporary poetry. Moon Child Seville. Image […]

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Concrete & Colour Exhibition at GraffitiStreet: Now Open to the World Virtually

July 30, 2025

Concrete & Colour may have wrapped up in the gallery, but the experience is far from over. We’re excited to announce that the full exhibition is now available to explore online through our Matterport 3D virtual tour bringing the show to screens around the world. Concrete & Colour at GraffitiStreet Gallery in Chichester, West Sussex. Matterport 3D virtual […]

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UNMUTED: Bordalo II’s ‘Sensitive Content’ Above Paris Speaks Loudly in Silence

July 29, 2025

Perched high above the streets of Paris, Portuguese artist and artivist Bordalo II has unveiled a mural that speaks through silence. Titled Sensitive Content, the work features just three elements: a blurred Palestinian flag, the phrase “Sensitive Content”, and the familiar mute icon. Deceptively minimal, the piece forces us to consider who decides what is too “sensitive” to be seen. Bordalo […]

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Toward the Horizon: Saype’s New Fresco in the Swiss Alps

July 26, 2025

French-Swiss artist Saype has returned to the Swiss Alps with a powerful new fresco, unveiled on July 18th, 2025, on the Grand Chamossaire slope in Villars-sur-Ollon. Titled Vers l’horizon (“Toward the Horizon”), the monumental land art piece spans 2,500 square meters and continues the poetic narrative the artist began in Villars several years ago. A Child Steps Forward For those following Saype’s alpine saga, […]

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The River Speaks: Helen Bur’s Borderless Mural in Arcos De Valdevez, Portugal

July 17, 2025

The river is never still and in Helen Bur’s latest mural painted for the MURArcos Festival in Arcos De Valdevez, neither are we. Titled Connected Rivers // Water Knows No Borders, the mural gently ripples with deeper meaning. It’s a meditation on movement, memory, and mutuality, and a visual reminder that what flows through us connects […]

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