VB Photo Project: Abu Dhabi Street Art and Bus Stop Art on November 2, 2024. Location: Madinat Zayed Shopping Centre. (Photo by Victor Besa/ he National)





A man cycles past a mural of Elton John in Watford in Hertfordshire, Britain, on December 2, 2024. (Photo by Matthew Childs/Reuters)





An artist works on a mural during the first graffiti festival “Graff Ivoire” in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 11 November 2024. The festival features artists from Senegal, Guinea, Benin, and South Africa, as well as representatives from Switzerland and France. The event runs until 19 November 2024. (Photo by Legnan Koula/EPA/EFE)





Boys play soccer in a park as the sun sets in Milan, Italy, Friday, September 13, 2024. (Photo by Luca Bruno/AP Photo)





People walk past graffiti depicting the late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 20, 2024. The writing reads in Hebrew: “Nasrallah (check) Sinwar (check) Returning the hostages ( )” on October 20, 2024. (Photo by Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters)





A pedestrian walks past a wall mural along a street in Mumbai on September 25, 2024. (Photo by Punit Paranjpe/AFP Photo)





A woman speaks on her mobile phone as she walks past a mural by Polish artist Bruno Althamer, depicting late Polish rock singer Olga Sipowicz, also known as Kora, during a sunny autumn day in Warsaw on September 17, 2024. Kora died of cancer in 2018 having lost her hair, but this mural gives her an opportunity to change hairstyle every season, the artist explained his idea behind the work. (Photo by Sergei Gapon/AFP Photo)





In an aerial view, a mansion in the Hollywood Hills is covered with graffiti by squatters who occupied and trashed the expensive house on September 23, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. The tags of the vandals are the same as some that were painted on the so-called “Graffiti Tower”, an unfinished 30-story downtown building that was covered in graffiti earlier this year. Work is beginning to cover the graffiti and restore the mansion. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)





Liudmyla Bordus touches a mural of her son, fallen Ukrainian soldier Maksym Bordus, painted by street artist Eugene Gladenko on the facade of the house where Maksym used to live, as Maksym’s grandmother, Tamara Bordus, watches from the window, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine,in Kyiv, Ukraine, on October 18, 2024. (Photo by Anna Voitenko/Reuters)





A graffiti, reading “no more feminicide” is sprayed on the wall of a house in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Monday, November 25, 2024. (Photo by Martin Meissner/AP Photo)





This photograph shows the famous Lyonnais fresco by CiteCreation with a tag depicting the Abbe Pierre with the word “rapist” next to it, in Lyon central-eastern France, on September 30, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Pachoud/AFP Photo)





The mural “Stop the Destruction” depicting Alessandra Munduruku in protest against Cargill with the name Cargill-MacMillan family painted with mud which was erased later, is seen in Sao Paulo, Brazil on October 23, 2024. Mural is designed by Brazilian artist and activist Mundano, made with different shades and colors of paint and also ashes collected from fires in Amazon and other biomes, mud from floods in Rio Grande do Sul, white clay from Sawre Muybu indigenous land, clay from Jaragua indigenous land and Urucum. (Photo by Amanda Perobelli/Reuters)





People walk past grafitti made by Brazilian artist Kobra at the port zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 6, 2024. The G20 Social Summit will take place at the port zone of Rio de Janeiro between November 14 and 16, 2024, on the eve of the G20 Leaders' Summit. (Photo by Mauro Pimentel/AFP Photo)





VB Photo Project: Abu Dhabi Street Art and Bus Stop Art on November 2, 2024. Artist: Ramy Elzaghawy. Location: Madinat Zayed Shopping Centre. (Photo by Victor Besa/The National)





A person walks past an artwork at the Weston Wallz street art festival in the seaside resort of Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, UK on Monday/ September 16, 2024, where this is just one of 18 new pieces created this year to go alongside 46 other murals in the town. (Photo by Ben Birchall/PA Images via Getty Images)