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Juraj Ďuriš Paints “Dialóg” Beside Ústí nad Labem’s Main Station
Juraj Ďuriš has painted Dialóg on the end wall of a railway building beside Ústí nad Labem’s main station. The large mural places a figurative work along one of the Czech city’s busiest approaches, where it can be seen from passing trains as well as the streets around the station. Ďuriš described the composition to Czech Radio as three figures, with a deer as a possible fourth element associated with Ústí.
Millo Paints “The Most Precious Treasure” Beside Alcantarilla’s Future Railway Station
Millo has completed The Most Precious Treasure (El tesoro más valioso) in Alcantarilla, Murcia. In the mural, his characters open a chest and find clear water instead of gold or jewels. The work stands alongside murals by JDL and Rocket01, facing the site of the town’s planned railway station. The chest gives Millo’s concern about water a simple narrative form: something precious has been found, but it must also be protected.
Ratur Paints “Anchored” for Appartengo in Stigliano
Ratur painted “Anchored,” an acrylic work on concrete, for the 2026 Appartengo public-art festival in Stigliano, Italy. The French artist, also known as Arthur Maslard, made it during the festival’s October programme of artist residencies and new works around the town. Maslard dates “Anchored” to 2026. Writing about his time in Stigliano, he foregrounded the people he met during the final weeks of October and thanked those who brought him into the project.
Keith Haring and CityKids’ 1986 Liberty Banner Returns as a New Print Collection
Keith Haring at work on CityKids Speak on Liberty, 1986. Archival photograph courtesy of CityKids, supplied by ICONIC. In June 1986, Keith Haring joined around 1,000 young people at New York’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center to make a banner too large to take in at a glance. Across three days, his black outlines became a 90-by-30-foot Statue of Liberty, surrounded and filled by the drawings, names and messages of the CityKids participants.
Dyoma Paints “Shandarba,” a Ryazan Folk Dance Across a Folded Facade
Dyoma has painted “Shandarba” across a residential building at 1A Kashirina Street in central Ryazan. Named for a traditional women’s dance from the Ryazan region, the mural turns the building’s projecting and recessed corners into part of its composition. The shape of the facade gave Alexander Demkin, who works as Dyoma21, his starting point. Its angles reminded him of dancers linking arms and turning face to face.
Zadie Xa and Benito Mayor Vallejo Bring Murals, Sound and Mythology to Toronto
Zadie Xa and Benito Mayor Vallejo have brought a world of murals, painted landscapes and marine forms to The Power Plant in Toronto. Opening on October 24, 2026, Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything places the visitor inside a setting where painting, sound and sculpture are experienced together. Zadie Xa with Benito Mayor Vallejo, earlier presentation at Esker Foundation, Calgary, 2026. Photo: Blaine Campbell.
Ibrahim Mahama Transforms Fondation Cartier With “The Harvest Season”
Ibrahim Mahama has opened The Harvest Season at Fondation Cartier in Paris, bringing the traces of Ghana’s industrial past into the institution’s new home on Place du Palais-Royal. Running from October 22, 2026 to February 28, 2027, the exhibition moves between salvaged factory structures, everyday objects and spaces designed for people to gather. Ibrahim Mahama, The Harvest Season, Fondation Cartier, Paris, 2026. Photo: © Benoît Fougeirol. Across the exhibition, materials carry the marks of use.
Jammie Holmes Brings His Painting to an NFL Field Beneath the Eiffel Tower
Jammie Holmes has brought one of his paintings onto the playing field in Paris. For the first edition of NFL COLOR FIELD, the Louisiana-born artist’s Untitled (2024) was translated into hand-painted end zones for a flag-football pitch beneath the Eiffel Tower, placing a portrait of childhood at the centre of a public sporting event. NFL COLOR FIELD project visual. Image courtesy NFL. The source painting shows a child surrounded by morning glory flowers.
Pablo Kobayashi and Lucía Aumann Bring “Oxímoron” to Downtown Denver
Pablo Kobayashi and Lucía Aumann have brought Oxímoron to downtown Denver for its first presentation in the United States. Installed inside Denver Pavilions from October 23–25, 2026, the inflatable work turns a commercial space into a temporary environment of colour, fabric and shifting boundaries. Oxímoron, publicity image supplied ahead of the Denver presentation. Image courtesy Persist Publicity. The piece rises around 13 feet high, but its scale is only part of the experience.
SNIK Paints “Verdure” for Out in the Open in Aalborg
SNIK has completed Verdure on a 14-metre wall in Aalborg, Denmark, for KIRK Gallery’s Out in the Open project. The artist duo describes figures entwined with abundant growth, bringing their hand-cut stencil work together with layers of colour and texture painted directly onto the wall. The composition places the precision of the stencilled figures alongside more organic marks, with colour and texture built both behind and in front of them.
Iota Paints “Any minute now” for Expo de Ouf! 14 in Nîmes
Iota painted “Any minute now” for Expo de Ouf! 14 in Nîmes, France. The mural occupies a façade facing rue Clérisseau, where the Brussels-based artist joined the festival’s 2026 programme of paintings across the city’s streets. The festival lists the site as 5 rue Saint-Charles, with the painted façade on rue Clérisseau. Iota was scheduled to work there from August 30 to September 4, 2026; organiser Le Spot says her mural was finished in time for the September 5 inauguration.
Sojo Paints “La Frenda” for Muro Crítico 2026 in Santiago de Alcántara
Sojo painted “La Frenda” in Santiago de Alcántara, Spain, for Muro Crítico 2026. Made during the programme’s October 12–16 visit to the town, the mural takes its name from a wedding-eve procession built around a practical act of generosity: bringing food for the feast to the bride’s home. In Sojo’s account of the custom, young women from both families, joined by friends and neighbours, carried the provisions on their heads. Boards, baskets and tubs were dressed with embroidered towels and cloths.
KOZO Opens Hidden Landscapes Across The Peninsula London’s Art Fleet
KOZO has turned six vehicles from The Peninsula London into a series of moving pictures. Titled A World Within, the project runs from 1–31 October 2026, placing the Brooklyn-based tattoo artist’s detailed imagery on cars travelling through the capital. The green bodywork appears to split and peel away. Beneath it, landscapes, architecture and sculptural details emerge in carefully contained openings. The effect asks for a second look: a passing car seems to reveal another place inside its surface.
Tarek Atoui Turns Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall Into a Space for Listening With “Hold”
Tarek Atoui has brought a landscape of instruments, sculptural objects and sound to Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. His new Hyundai Commission, Hold, opened on 13 October 2026 and continues until 11 April 2027, creating a setting that develops through listening and live performance. The installation gives the hall a different rhythm. Suspended forms sit at different heights, with open space between them and paths through the work.
Swizz Beatz Brings Art, Music and Furniture Together in “Casa Dean” for CB2
Swizz Beatz has brought his interests in music, art and interiors into Casa Dean, a new collection for CB2. Launched on 15 October 2026, the range was developed with Evan Jerry of Studio ANANSI and CB2’s design team, spanning furniture, lighting and objects for the home. The collection is strongest where its different references sit together in a single piece. Wood grain, green upholstery and polished metal recur across the rooms, while rounded seating softens the more architectural forms.
Slawn Takes Painting Above London’s South Bank With a Crane-Suspended Canvas
Slawn took his painting practice into the open air on 13 October 2026, bringing a crane-suspended canvas to Doon Street Car Park on London’s South Bank. Presented with Saatchi Yates during Frieze week, the event made the act of painting visible at the scale of the surrounding buildings. The setup was direct: a large canvas held above the ground, a raised working platform and an audience looking up from behind the barriers. The machinery became part of the picture.
David Popa Creates “Rebirth” at the Water’s Edge in Norway
David Popa has shared a first look at Rebirth, a new land-art project created in the mountains of Norway. Working with chalk and charcoal on pale ground beside vividly blue water, the artist has made two images: a curled human figure and a winged creature. Over the following days, rising water brought an unexpected change to the work, covering the figure while leaving it visible beneath the surface. Your browser does not support embedded video. Watch Rebirth by David Popa.
Uri KTHR Paints Sant Pere Pescador at L’Ametlla de Mar’s Port
Uri KTHR’s Sant Pere Pescador looks out from the former fishermen’s guild building beside the port of L’Ametlla de Mar, Spain. Completed in 2024 as part of the town’s Efímurs mural project, the spray-painted Saint Peter occupies a façade closely tied to the people he is said to protect: the building houses the town’s fishing interpretation centre. The figure has a white beard and a yellow robe that recalls fishermen’s coats.
Seth Globepainter Paints “Puffin” in the Faroe Islands
Seth Globepainter’s mural “Puffin” brings a child and a seabird face to face in Kollafjørður, in the Faroe Islands. The child wears a puffin mask; the puffin wears a human one. Between them, the child offers a small fish. Their exchanged disguises give the encounter its gentle strangeness, while the bird and the catch place it firmly in the islands. The child’s Faroese dress adds another local detail to an image built around a simple gesture.
Dulk Paints “Where the Forest Sings” for BLINK 2026 in Cincinnati
Dulk painted “Where the Forest Sings” on a brick wall in Cincinnati for BLINK 2026. The mural is at 116 Findlay Street in Over-the-Rhine, near Findlay Market. Its woodland scene gives the festival a work that remains on the street after its October 8–11 programme has ended. The artist describes a small melody stirring the forest to life: woodland creatures awaken as autumn turns the landscape gold. For Dulk, the scene is a celebration of life and harmony in the natural world.
Etsom Paints a Dove of Leaves and Flowers on a School Wall in Mozzo
Alessandro “Etsom” Conti has painted “Nelle nostre mani” on the façade of a secondary school in Mozzo, near Bergamo. In the mural, a dove takes shape from leaves and flowers, with many hands gathered around it. The municipality commissioned the work, which was inaugurated on October 10, 2026, alongside the naming of a nearby Parco della Pace. The dove’s outline becomes more intricate up close. Etsom describes its leaves and flowers as delicate elements, some appearing ready to break away.
Sea162 Paints “La Dura Montaña” With Iron-Mine Pigments in Asturias
Sea162’s 2026 mural “La Dura Montaña” brings the landscape and history of Santo Adriano onto a wall in Villanueva de Santo Adriano, Asturias. Its pigments came from minerals at the area’s former iron mines, extracted with the help of local residents. The work is part of Patrimonio Vivo, a community heritage project developed with the La Ponte research centre and ecomuseum.
Case Maclaim Creates “Our Insides Showing” for Château de Belcastel’s Keep
In 2021, Case Maclaim placed a monumental printed image on the keep of Château de Belcastel in southern France. Titled “Our Insides Showing” by the château, the portrait brought a contemporary image onto an 11th-century fortress: a giant eye visible from the village below. The work was made for LEGEND, an exhibition that brought seven street artists to the château. Rather than painting directly onto the keep, Case used a printed image mounted on its exterior. That distinction matters here.
KAWS Brings CHUM to Absolut with a New Painting and Artist Edition Bottle
KAWS in his studio with the commissioned Absolut painting. Image courtesy of Absolut. KAWS has created a new painting and Artist Edition bottle for Absolut, bringing his CHUM character and familiar crossed-out eyes to the Swedish vodka label’s long-running programme of artist collaborations. The project places the Brooklyn-based artist in a lineage that began with Andy Warhol’s Absolut painting in 1985 and subsequently included Keith Haring. The painting is the starting point.
ZEBU Paints a Mural on Caen Tu Bosses for Palma Festival 2026
ZEBU has completed a mural on the gable end of Caen Tu Bosses, a shared-workspace building in Caen, France. The Berlin-based duo painted the wall for the 2026 Palma Festival, bringing one of the event’s commissions into a place used by workers and seen by its neighbors each day. Caen Tu Bosses had announced a September 21–27 painting period. After the mural was finished, the workspace described watching its shapes and colors appear over several days.
Invader Creates a New Mosaic Invasion in Lapland
Invader is taking his mosaic project into Lapland. The artist describes the northern campaign as an “Invasion of Lapland in progress,” and Lapland now appears as a territory on his official world index. The designation is broader than the city names that anchor many of his invasions. Rather than presenting a single wall as the project, Invader has framed this work as an ongoing campaign across a region. His three-image update marks its arrival, not a completed inventory.
Nadège Dauvergne Paints a Fragment of Constant Bourgeois’s Italian Landscape in Orléans
Nadège Dauvergne has painted a landscape at the entrance to the Guernazelles nursery school in La Source, Orléans. She took a section of Constant Bourgeois’s “Paysage d’Italie,” held by the city’s Musée des Beaux-Arts, and remade it on the wall using her divisionist technique. The mural brings a painting from the museum’s collection into the daily route to school without attempting to reproduce the entire canvas.
Swoon and Rabi Join InScope’s New Beachfront Programme in Miami
Swoon and Rabi Towing are among the first artists announced for InScope, a new beachfront cultural event debuting during Miami Art Week. Scheduled for December 1–6, 2026, at Ocean Drive and 8th Street, the programme brings large-scale installations, murals and site-specific work into the setting of an art fair. Swoon, The House Our Families Built (2021), Brooklyn Bridge Park. Photo: Marshall LaCount.
Nike’s Archive Puts the Design Process on View at New York’s MAD
Nike: Form Follows Motion is on view at New York’s Museum of Arts and Design, bringing five decades of the company’s design history into a museum setting. The exhibition opened on September 12, 2026, and continues through March 7, 2027. Nike: Form Follows Motion at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. Image: Museum of Arts and Design.
“Notes in Repose” Connects Contemporary Jazz with the Sounds of the Café
Makaya McCraven, Jeff Parker and Angel Bat Dawid are among the artists featured on Notes in Repose, Blue Bottle Coffee’s first compilation album. Announced on September 29, the project brings contemporary jazz together with ambient recordings made in the company’s cafés. Notes in Repose, Blue Bottle Coffee’s limited-edition jazz compilation. Image: Blue Bottle Coffee.
teamLab Brings “Everything Exists in Infinite Continuity” to Chicago
teamLab has brought Everything Exists in Infinite Continuity to the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. Running from September 22, 2026, to February 21, 2027, the exhibition is the Tokyo collective’s first in the Midwest and follows its practice across twenty-five years. teamLab, Continuous Life and Death at the Now of Eternity II (2019). Installation view, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 2026. © teamLab.
Early Banksy: 20 Rare Works, Sketches and Installations
Banksy’s early work rewards a slower look. Before the auction-room spectacles and the images reproduced on every possible surface, there were crowded Bristol walls, cartoon animals, pencil plans, small exhibitions and objects borrowed from the street. The artist’s visual language emerged through these experiments, with traces of graffiti writing, illustration and the staging of public encounters running through the work.
NITRO MICROPHONE UNDERGROUND Links Sound and Image on “Eclipse”
NITRO MICROPHONE UNDERGROUND has released Eclipse, a new single produced by MACKA-CHIN. Issued digitally through NITRICH on September 23, 2026, the track arrives with an official music video, bringing the crew’s music and visual identity into the same project. NITRO MICROPHONE UNDERGROUND, Eclipse (2026), official single artwork. © NITRICH. GORE-TEX and filmmaker Hirotaka Shimizu co-directed the video, with Junnosuke Ohba credited as director of photography.
Jorge Charrua Paints “Marathon” for Conversas na Rua 2026 in Amadora
Jorge Charrua has painted “Marathon,” a 2026 mural in Amadora, Portugal, for the 12th edition of Conversas na Rua. Taking the idea of a marathon beyond sport, the work considers the pressure to reach life’s milestones on a timetable set by other people. Charrua describes the mural as a response to expectations from friends, relatives and society: the sense that goals should be achieved quickly, even when circumstances have changed from one generation to the next.
Yung Lean Brings a Decade of Visual Art to Stockholm’s Former Gasworks
Jonatan Leandoer Håstad, better known as Yung Lean, is showing ten years of visual work in Stockholm. Collected Works 2016–2026 occupies Norra Bangården at Torsgatan 22, in the city’s former Gasworks, bringing another part of the musician’s practice into public view. Collected Works 2016–2026, official exhibition artwork. © Jonatan Leandoer Håstad. The exhibition opened on September 25 and runs until October 11, 2026.
World of WearableArt Turns Sculpture into Performance in Wellington
World of WearableArt is bringing its 2026 show, GLO!, to Wellington’s TSB Arena through October 4. The event takes garments created for an international design competition and presents them through a theatrical performance, giving each work a body, movement and a place within a shared spectacle. Kayla Christensen, Sacred Nightfall, New Zealand. Supreme WOW Award winner, 2026. Image: World of WearableArt.
Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “KAGAMI+” Reframes the Concert in Osaka
Ryuichi Sakamoto & Tin Drum | KAGAMI+ remains on view at VS. in Osaka through October 12, 2026. Presented within Grand Green Osaka’s Umekita Park, the project uses mixed reality to bring Sakamoto’s captured piano performance into a space shared with its audience. KAGAMI, by Ryuichi Sakamoto & Tin Drum. Official exhibition image: KAGAMI+. Sakamoto developed KAGAMI with Tin Drum, led by Todd Eckert, over the final four years of his life. The work premiered at The Shed in New York in 2023.
ComplexCon Brings Its Tenth Anniversary to Los Angeles This Weekend
ComplexCon arrives in Los Angeles on October 3–4, 2026, marking its tenth anniversary with a programme spread across the Los Angeles Convention Center and Crypto.com Arena. Playboi Carti and Hiroshi Fujiwara of Fragment Design are serving as artistic directors, bringing music and design into the event’s broader creative direction. ComplexCon 2026, official tenth anniversary programme. Image: ComplexCon.
El Mac Paints “Instant de Grâce” at Place Jeanne d’Arc in Paris
El Mac’s “Instant de Grâce” (2026) brings the face of a ballerina to a building at Place Jeanne d’Arc in Paris’s 13th arrondissement, beside Église Notre-Dame de la Gare. The artist says his friend Sophia modeled for the mural. Lines and shifts in tone give her face depth against the façade, where it meets the gaze of people crossing the square. The 13th arrondissement’s municipal magazine identifies the site as 19 place Jeanne d’Arc.
Tymon de Laat Paints “Shared Harvest” on an Uden Apartment Block
Tymon de Laat has completed Shared Harvest (Vrucht der verbinding), an 11-by-7-metre mural on an apartment block in Uden’s Flatwijk neighbourhood. Painted in spray paint and latex for housing corporation Area, it centres on a young girl of Dutch and Korean descent wearing a hanbok and carrying a basket of cherries and cherry blossom. The wall stands at Wilhelminastraat 1, on a road into town.
JahOne Paints “Balance” at Post City Linz
JahOne has painted “Balance” on a facade at Post City Linz, the former postal logistics complex beside the city’s main railway station. At the centre of the mural stands a woman holding a wind turbine shaped like a sun. The work was made for “Addressing Tomorrow,” a project by Calle Libre and Austrian Post that brought large-scale murals to the site. (callelibre.at) The turbine’s patterned form draws on traditional embroidery, as does a flower in the woman’s hair.
PSOMAN Paints “Mono No Fu” for Racines Festival in Evere
PSOMAN has painted “Mono No Fu” for the 2026 Racines Festival in Evere, Brussels. The Belgian artist names the work and credits HMI with inviting him to contribute. The festival ran from September 4 to 13, bringing graffiti and street art to walls across Evere. “Mono No Fu” is one of those individual works, made for a setting where the paintings are encountered throughout the municipality rather than at a single venue. PSOMAN is from the Liège region.
Volumnia Brings Italian Design and Michele De Lucchi’s “Three Little Spirits” to Paris
In a Paris garden this October, visitors to Design Miami Paris will encounter a building that appears to look back at them. Volumnia’s first presentation at the fair, Common Ground, is framed by Three Little Spirits, a wooden pavilion designed for the Piacenza gallery by Michele De Lucchi. Set between the garden and Volumnia’s exhibition at L’Hôtel de Maisons, the pavilion is conceived as a threshold.
Amok Island Paints “Cows in a Field” in Amstelveen
Amok Island has completed “Cows in a Field” on the side of an apartment building on Camera Obscuralaan in Amstelveen, near Amsterdam. Dutch cows stand among dandelions beneath a moody sky—a familiar landscape chosen by an artist who has spent much of the past 15 years painting flora and fauna abroad. The mural was unveiled in September 2026. (mijnamstelveen.nl) For Amok Island, painting here was a return to a place he knew before moving to Australia.
Asem Navarro Paints “Casilda” at the Site of Briviesca’s Former Jail
Asem Navarro’s mural “Casilda” rises above the site of Briviesca’s former municipal jail. The portrait occupies a 150-square-metre wall on a residential building in La Taconera, giving the town’s patron saint a presence far removed from a conventional religious image. Navarro depicts her as a young woman with a composed, assured bearing. (elarteurbano.com) The setting matters to the artist.
MSCHF Turns Lexus Cars Into Impossible Sculptures in New York
At first glance, MSCHF’s latest cars look like digital images caught mid-glitch. They are physical sculptures. For MOTOMORPHOSIS, the Brooklyn collective made two distorted doubles of Lexus vehicles and placed them beside the familiar production models at Chelsea Industrial in New York. A loop and a twist Circle Car pulls the shape of an electric Lexus RZ 450e into a nose-to-tail loop.
Yoseba MP Paints “Cuando había 6 bares y mucho ruido” in Portaje
Yoseba MP has completed “Cuando había 6 bares y mucho ruido” (“When There Were Six Bars and Lots of Noise”) at the care home in Portaje, Spain. Painted for Muro Crítico 2026, the mural turns to a moment in the town’s past: a scene from 1963, when, according to the project, Portaje had around 1,400 residents. The provincial council’s programme confirms that Yoseba’s work in Portaje was scheduled for September 21–25, 2026.
Sfhir Paints “Make Life Great Again” for ALL CAPS 2026 in Rotterdam
Sfhir’s “Make Life Great Again” centres on an embrace. Painted for the 2026 ALL CAPS festival in Rotterdam, the mural places a gesture of closeness on a wall in Lombardijen, the neighbourhood where this year’s festival took place. (rewriters010.nl) For Sfhir, the embrace stands for peace and for the possibility of connection across differences. He describes the light emerging from the encounter as a sign of hope: a way to picture positive change through art and creativity.
Alba Fabre Paints Blanes Beach and Sa Palomera for COMMUN
Alba Fabre has painted a Blanes beach scene on the former Els Pins sports pavilion in Catalonia. Bathers and parasols fill the mural, with the silhouette of Sa Palomera on the horizon. The wall faces Avinguda Josep Tarradellas and the sea, placing Fabre’s painted shoreline close to the landscape it depicts. Fabre made the mural for COMMUN, a project led by Barcelona-based urban art centre B-Murals with the support of Blanes Town Council.
Edoardo Ettorre Paints “Ipno” for Pulpa Festival in Mottafollone
Edoardo Ettorre’s “Ipno” brings a figure dressed in clothing that recalls ancient Greece into an ordinary living-room scene. She sits on a contemporary sofa, painted on a wall in Mottafollone, Calabria, for Pulpa Festival. The title refers to the Greek god of sleep, but Ettorre’s image does not attempt a literal portrait of him. It lets an ancient story enter a setting familiar to anyone passing by.
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