New Street Art That Changes the Whole Wall (15 Photos, Vol. 40)

August 23, 2026
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Split image showing Barok’s mostly monochrome mural of a wide-eyed face with an open mouth, and Dioz Gomez’s painted spider illusion inside a moss-covered drainage tunnel in Michoacán, Mexico.

Fifteen works from around the world

This round includes a spider in a mossy tunnel, a giant cat over Montréal rooftops, a Ninja Turtle in France and a pixelated swallow in Leipzig. Tap Love beneath your favorites to move them up the ranking.


Two views of a long graffiti wall by Funky Fresh AJC D1 SV and Yuseful Mouloud in Poincy, France, with an ape in red sunglasses, two customized cars and angular red, blue and green lettering.

🦍 An Ape Between Two Cars — By Funky Fresh AJC D1 SV & Yuseful Mouloud in Poincy, France 🇫🇷

A grinning ape in red sunglasses stands between two customized cars and bright red, blue and green lettering. Red fragments fill the spaces between them.

Painted during Festif l’Art #17, held in Poincy on July 3–4, 2026.

💡 What We Could Verify: Festif l’Art began in 2008 with the aim of removing barriers of price and genre. Its programme includes music, live performance and visual art.

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Latrodectus trompe-l’œil spider mural by Dioz Gomez inside a moss-covered drainage tunnel in Michoacán, Mexico.

🕷️ “Latrodectus” — By Dioz Gomez in Michoacán, Mexico 🇲🇽

Dioz Gomez’s “Latrodectus” uses the curved wall and floor of a moss-covered drainage tunnel to turn a painted spider into a three-dimensional illusion. His process video shows the image being built directly in spray paint.

💡 What We Could Verify: During the Second World War, the U.S. Army used the unusually tough silk of widow spiders for gunsight crosshairs.

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Anna Charney’s mural covering the patio wall at New Terrain Brewing in Golden, Colorado, USA, with layered purple flowers and radiating blue, turquoise, green and orange patterns.

🌸 Colorado Plants and Animals — By Anna Charney in Golden, Colorado, USA 🇺🇸

Anna Charney painted the mural with spray paint across the outdoor patio wall at New Terrain Brewing. Nearly 70 feet wide and 26 feet tall, it draws on native plants and animals found where the Great Plains meet the Rocky Mountains.

💡 What We Could Verify: Nearby North Table Mountain is capped by lava flows about 63–64 million years old. The lava originally filled a valley. It resisted later erosion, leaving the old valley floor as the mesa summit—a process called topographic inversion.

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I’m too big for this town, Cat Version, mural by Milkbox in Montréal, showing a giant cat walking over painted rooftops.

🐈 “I’m too big for this town,” Cat Version — By Milkbox in Montréal, Canada 🇨🇦

Painted in the courtyard at AC Hotel Old Montreal, “I’m too big for this town,” Cat Version sends a giant cat across a row of small painted rooftops.

💡 What We Could Verify: Old Montréal includes the site of Fort Ville-Marie, where about 50 settlers founded Ville-Marie in 1642; the settlement later became Montréal.

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Two views of André Kan and Leyland Adams’s mural at Sala Forum in San Andrés Cholula, Mexico, showing black-and-white musicians and piano keys among pink, cyan, blue and purple geometric forms.

🌀 Music and Geometry — By André Kan & Leyland Adams in San Andrés Cholula, Mexico 🇲🇽

Painted during a World Art Destinations residency at Sala Forum, the collaboration pairs portraits of musicians with geometric forms. The project says the work is about the energy created when music brings a community together.

Created with World Art Destinations.

💡 What We Could Verify: Leyland Adams has worked with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind to make murals accessible beyond sight. His projects have combined tactile surfaces and Braille with QR-linked audio descriptions.

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RoboCop aims a gun toward the viewer between large chrome CESER and SAKER lettering, with a police car and robot behind him, in a graffiti mural by Ceser 87 and Saker VCG in Roskilde, Denmark.

🤖 RoboCop in Chrome — By Ceser 87 & Saker VCG in Roskilde, Denmark 🇩🇰

Ceser 87 shared the finished collaboration with Saker VCG under the tag #vintagerobocop. RoboCop stands between heavy chrome letters, with smaller characters and mechanical details in the background.

💡 What We Could Verify: The headquarters façade in the original RoboCop is actually Dallas City Hall. Filmmakers made the building appear taller with a matte painting, a pre-digital compositing technique.

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Close-up mural of Donatello, the purple-masked Ninja Turtle, lit by orange light against a purple, lightning-streaked background, by Ynoxe 1985 in Brive-la-Gaillarde, France.

🐢 A Ninja Turtle in Orange Light — By Ynoxe 1985 in Brive-la-Gaillarde, France 🇫🇷

Smoke and orange light surround Ynoxe’s purple-masked Ninja Turtle. The character looks straight at the viewer from a low angle.

💡 What We Could Verify: The purple mask identifies Donatello, but the original Mirage comic did not color-code the brothers. Kevin Eastman recalled that all four Turtles wore red masks; Peter Laird devised separate bandanna colors and lettered belts when the characters were adapted for toys and animation.

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Mural by Harfob in Seville, Spain, showing a bearded man staring forward beneath straight black bangs, with neon red, yellow, green and blue marks at the sides.

👀 A Bearded Portrait — By Harfob in Seville, Spain 🇪🇸

A bearded face looks straight at the viewer beneath a heavy black fringe. Neon marks sit around the edges.

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Two views of the BLOOM & BLADE mural by Ona Salvador and Asem Navarro in Baronissi, Italy, with two painted women, blades, pink flowers, turquoise leaves and wolf heads.

🗡️ “BLOOM & BLADE” — By Ona Salvador & Asem Navarro in Baronissi, Italy 🇮🇹

The artists say “BLOOM & BLADE” brings together their love of Princess Mononoke and Lady Snowblood. Painted at Parco della Rinascita, flowers and leaves surround the blades at the center of the collaboration.

💡 What We Could Verify: In Japanese, mononoke refers to spirits or changed beings. The other film named by the artists, the 1973 Lady Snowblood, became a major inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill.

Created for Overline Jam.

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GUÍSAMO MEMORIES mural by Antón Seoane and Doctor Toy on an old stone house in Guísamo, Spain, showing a dark-haired woman holding gold flowers beside a gray-and-white wolf-like animal, with the balcony and doorway cutting through the scene.

🐺 “GUÍSAMO MEMORIES” — By Antón Seoane & Doctor Toy in Guísamo, Spain 🇪🇸

Seoane describes the 6-by-5-metre collaboration as a meeting of nature and folklore on an old Galician house. Based on an original idea by Silc NeoTR, it leaves the aged stone, balcony, windows and roofline visible.

💡 What We Could Verify: Guísamo’s folk festival was revived in 2000 to recover the memory of a local event begun by young residents in the late 1970s to promote Galician folklore and traditional music.

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Concrete Horizons mural by Bond Truluv in Leipzig, showing a pixelated swallow, local architecture, street signs and chrome spheres.

🌆 “Concrete Horizons” — By Bond Truluv in Leipzig, Germany 🇩🇪

A pixelated swallow crosses a collage of Grünau architecture, street signs and chrome spheres. Bond describes “Concrete Horizons”, at Stuttgarter Allee 18, as one of five site-specific, augmented-reality murals commissioned for the district’s 50th anniversary.

💡 What We Could Verify: The five-mural Grünau project covers 1,750 square metres along a four-kilometre walking route. Bond completed the façade at Stuttgarter Allee 18 in four days, and each mural’s QR code activates its own augmented-reality layer.

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LATEX BUNNY mural by Joel Arroyo in Barcelona, Spain, showing a stylized blonde woman with half-closed eyes wearing a glossy black rabbit mask with long ears.

🐰 “LATEX BUNNY” — By Joel Arroyo in Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸

In “LATEX BUNNY,” a pale-haired woman wears a glossy black rabbit mask with oversized ears. Her eyes are half-closed.

💡 What We Could Verify: Ancient Mesoamerican peoples processed latex from Castilla elastica with liquid from the morning glory Ipomoea alba, producing rubber balls and hollow figurines long before latex entered modern fashion.

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Mostly monochrome mural by Barok of a wide-eyed face with an open mouth and swept-up hair, with small orange glowing dots and a rusty orange background.

😮 Wide Eyes, Open Mouth — By Barok

A monochrome face stares with wide eyes and an open mouth. A few small orange marks stand out against the gray.

Photo by Project 193 Berlin.

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Paconer’s CAPITAL P(EACE) mural on a long roadside wall in Bergamo, Italy, with huge angular blue letterforms filled with clouds and fire between two metallic roses, beneath a sunset sky.

🔥 “CAPITAL P(EACE)” — By Paconer in Bergamo, Italy 🇮🇹

Paconer shared “CAPITAL P(EACE)” in December 2025. He donated the work to his hometown of Bergamo after conversations with residents of the building at Via San Giorgio 14c. Two large roses frame blue letterforms filled with clouds and flames. A real sunset is visible above the wall.

💡 What We Could Verify: Pope John XXIII was born at Sotto il Monte in Bergamo province. His 1963 encyclical Pacem in Terris (“Peace on Earth”) was addressed to “all men of good will.”

Created for the first edition of Urban Gift Project.

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FND Graff’s TUDO TEM SEU TEMPO mural in Guarulhos, Brazil, showing a large magenta portrait beside a green, white and red hummingbird, with yellow, turquoise and black abstract graffiti marks.

🐦 “TUDO TEM SEU TEMPO” — By FND Graff in Guarulhos, Brazil 🇧🇷

The mural combines a pink portrait, a hummingbird and loose graffiti marks. FND titled it “TUDO TEM SEU TEMPO”—“Everything Has Its Time”—and said it is about growth that happens slowly and out of sight.

💡 What We Could Verify: In a field experiment, wild rufous hummingbirds learned which artificial flowers refilled after ten minutes and which refilled after twenty, then timed their return visits accordingly.

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