Street Art

July 13, 2025

20 Years of Vhils’ Exceptional Art Now on View in Retrospective Exhibition

Portuguese street artist Alexandre Farto, also known as Vhils, rose to fame thanks to his innovative technique of drilling portraits onto the surface of walls. Now, his career is being celebrated with a major exhibition at Munich's Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art (MUCA). Strata is a comprehensive look at Vhils' artistic production over the last two decades.

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June 23, 2025

46-Foot-Tall Mural Beautifully Expresses a Balance Between Strength, Fragility, and Resilience

Every year for the past decade, the Alpine city of Grenoble, in southeastern France, becomes a beacon for street art. That annual transformation is thanks in large part to the Street Art Festival of Grenoble, which, since 2015, has brought more than 400 murals to the city by artists from around the world. For this year’s edition, the UK-based duo SNIK unveiled Flourish, their newest and, in many ways, most technically complex artwork to date.

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February 28, 2025

Artist in the Process of Going Deaf Creates Scenes of Resilience With Her Monumental Murals [Interview]

One of the first things Nico Cathcart noticed were the birds: they’d somehow gone silent. Even though she could see them soaring above her, their beaks shaped into chirps, she wasn’t able to hear them. By her 20s, she’d been officially diagnosed with a degenerative cochlear condition. Today, birds figure strongly within Cathcart’s monumental art and murals, not only as reminders of the artist’s disability but, more importantly, as symbols of resilience.

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