New Street Art That Makes You Look Twice (16 Photos, Vol. 36)

Sixteen new works that reward a closer look

A painted bench becomes E.T., a fox blooms across a London wall, and a bull terrier sits down for class. These sixteen new artworks move from playful graffiti characters to portraits rooted in memory.

Tap Love beneath the works that stay with you.

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👑 A Face Across the Facade — By Felipe Talu in Macaé, Brazil 🇧🇷

Talu’s mural lets a turquoise face take over the long facade, while loose white lines, a small crown and blocks of red and gold keep the portrait moving.

Painted at R. Tenente-Coronel Amado, 212, in central Macaé.

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🌱 Meeting at the Flower — By Roos Vink & Michel Velt in Foxhol, Netherlands 🇳🇱

Models Kim and Tristan face a flowering potato plant that climbs between the windows, while the roof pattern carries its leaves and colors across the building. In Roos Vink’s account of the mural, the figures honor Foxhol’s Moluccan community, while the plant refers both to the local Avebe factory and to the idea of being rooted in the village.

Commissioned by Lefier and painted at Gruttostraat 23.

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🐶 Ready for Class — By Jakub Tsau in Lazy pod Makytou, Slovakia 🇸🇰

A bull terrier sits upright at a school desk with a pencil across its mouth. Its serious stare against the purple classroom background completes the joke.

Tsau identifies the site as ZŠ Lazy pod Makytou, the village’s primary and nursery school at Lazy pod Makytou 148.

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👽 E.T. on the Bench — By Jinks Kunst in Orvault, France 🇫🇷

Two enormous glossy eyes and a tiny nose turn the wooden backrest into E.T.’s face. Jinks Kunst identifies it as part of his “Challenge ‘The Eyes’” bench series.

Created at Château de la Gobinière in Orvault. The artist’s events archive records his solo exhibition there in 2018.

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✊ Andrew Mlangeni — By RMER ONE in Swansea, Wales, UK 🇬🇧

A monochrome portrait of South African anti-apartheid activist Andrew Mlangeni reaches beyond a bright pink ring. RMER ONE says he painted it in summer 2022 for The World Reimagined with Swansea Council and Oner Signs.

Mlangeni was one of eight Rivonia trialists sentenced to life in 1964, and he spent 27 years on Robben Island.

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🤿 Deep Below the Letters — By Germar Claus in Wilhelmshaven, Germany 🇩🇪

A vintage deep-sea diver reaches through bubbles and angular lettering as if the wall has dropped to the ocean floor. Coral-like forms and small underwater details reward a closer look.

Claus painted the work during the third Spray-WATT Graffiti Festival, held July 31–August 2, 2026, at the Peterstraße parking garage, according to the organizer’s program.

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✊ “Girls Just Wanna…Walk Home” — By FRIZ with Gerry Norman in Bangor, Northern Ireland, UK 🇬🇧

Seen from behind, a young woman raises both fists in a jacket covered with messages about freedom, safety and solidarity. Painted high on a gable, the figure turns a private fear into a public demand.

The project was co-designed with young women in YMCA North Down’s Flip the Script group to support the campaign to end violence against women and girls. FRIZ said photographs from one of their safety walks through Bangor inspired the raised-arm pose.

Created with support from Ards and North Down Borough Council’s Community Safety Team on the wall of Inflow Pilates at 1–3 Hamilton Road.

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🪣 “Climate change” — By Ladamenrouge in Saint-Étienne, France 🇫🇷

A child wearing bright red water wings stands on cracked earth with a bucket and spade, while factory chimneys smoke on the horizon. Painted on a street cabinet, the scene turns a familiar day at the beach into a stark climate warning.

The artist identifies the work as “Climate change” and places it near 58 Rue Henri Dechaud.

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🦊 “Floral Fox” — By Curtis Hylton in Hammersmith, London, UK 🇬🇧

A fox emerges from pale flowers and warm green leaves across the long wall. Soft fur and petals make the industrial facade feel briefly wild.

Hylton shared “Floral Fox” in July 2026 after completing the mural for a Blank Walls project at Linacre Community Centre in Hammersmith.

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🐈 The Cat and the Smile — By Mélissa Follet in Gouttières, France 🇫🇷

The smiling man is Follet’s friend Gontran, with Choupette draped across his shoulders. Against the black wall, the monochrome portrait keeps the focus on their eyes and expressions.

Follet thanked Gontran and Choupette as her muses after painting the work for the fourth Les Chats de Gouttières festival. Municipal documentation says she painted it by brush on a garage facade near Château Bottes.

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🐴 Don Quixote and the Windmills — By MrFijodor in Lanzo Torinese, Italy 🇮🇹

Don Quixote rides Rocinante beneath looming windmills, with Sancho Panza following on his donkey. The narrow gable makes the imagined danger tower over both riders.

The City of Lanzo identifies the scene as a mural dedicated to Don Quixote and his famous windmills, and credits Art Project APS. LROC’s official program records its inauguration on July 24, 2026, during LROC Festival.

Painted at Via G. B. Savant 2.

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🐒 “Superchango!! 26” — By Humone Sinfronteraz

A muscular cartoon ape leans over a yellow car with an orange spray can in hand while hot orange lines race across a blue background. Humone shared the completed wall as “Superchango!! 26”; the post does not identify a location.

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🧵 Who Pulls the Thread? — By Omar Alonso in Barranquilla, Colombia 🇨🇴

Two oversized hands turn a red wind-up key set into the cap of a smaller figure. In Alonso’s own account, he suggests that what seems to guide us may really be a thread controlled by someone else.

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👁️ “Mirada Teotihuacana” — By Miguel Alba in Teotihuacán de Arista, Mexico 🇲🇽

Red and teal light sweep across a calm portrait with almost photographic depth. Fine highlights in the eyes and skin make the wall seem to glow from inside.

Alba calls the portrait “Mirada Teotihuacana”, an “ancestral legacy,” and says it was commissioned for La Casa de Quetzalcóatl handicraft shop in Nueva Evangelista.

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🌿 “Benção” — By Priscila Amoni in São Gonçalo do Rio Abaixo, Brazil 🇧🇷

A pair of weathered, clasped hands holds a vivid bundle of leaves against a deep blue wall. The quiet gesture feels protective, generous and rooted in the land.

Amoni titled the 2026 work “Benção” and credits Agência Urbana de Arte and her collaborators.

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🧵 “Rammendi d’Amore” — By Chekos Art in Aradeo, Italy 🇮🇹

The portrait honors Cirimanna, a locally remembered woman known for her skill as a mender. Chekos surrounds her with bright thread-like lines, graphic patches and black-and-white patterns, turning repair into a metaphor for care, resistance and community memory, as the artist explains.

Created with 167B Street at Via Piersanti Mattarella 12.

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