Art

December 29, 2025

Banksy’s Latest Mural Shines a Light on Unhoused Children During the Holidays

Embed from Getty Images Just before Christmas, Londoners awoke to Banksy’s latest mural. In this new, powerful piece, two children in winter coats lie on the ground, gazing upward, one reaching their arm out toward a distant star. The artwork stretches across the side of a row of garages in Bayswater, near bustling Queensway and the edges of Kensington Gardens.

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December 19, 2025

Iconic ‘Rocky’ Statue Will Return to the Top of PMA’s Steps in Philadelphia

In the 1976 film Rocky, actor Sylvester Stallone, playing the eponymous boxer, races up the 72 stone steps to the east entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA). It’s one of the most iconic scenes in modern film history, and even led to the creation of a 9-foot-tall bronze sculpture in the 1980s. Now, after some debate, the original Rocky statue will soon return to the top of PMA’s steps.

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December 18, 2025

Artist Suspends Stunning Spectrum of Colorful Mesh Inside a Church

In 2012, Tomislav Topić unearthed a tangled collection of strings and ropes from his university years, hidden away in his studio and unused for nearly two years. The discovery proved to be a pivotal one—when he was later invited to participate in an urban arts festival, he revived the once dormant material into 33,000 Feet, a large-scale installation that would define his artistic practice for years to come.

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