Artist Catherine Nelson poses with her installation Planet Wakehurst, at Wakehurst Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, in Ardingly, West Sussex on Tuesday, May 16, 2023. The 1,550 square metres canvas – the equivalent of 25 double decker buses and one of the UK's largest outdoor installations – features a photo montage of Wakehurst gardens' world-leading plant collections and is wrapped around the Grade I listed Elizabethan mansion house. Visitors can view the display from a 33ft high platform offering views across Wakehurst's wild landscape and the South Downs. (Photo by Gareth Fuller/PA Images via Getty Images)





A police officer walks past cat mural during the Bund Art Festival, in Shanghai, China, 16 May 2023. Shanghai became a magnet for selfie tourists as a Shanghai-born cartoonist covered Fangbang Middle Road with cat murals. Gao Youjun, also known as Tango, has covered one of the oldest streets with more than 30 images of pet cats owned by local families. Additionally, Tango painted about 30 cartoons on the walls as part of the Bund Art Festival, which features international and Chinese artwork. (Photo by Alex Plavevski/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Argentine artist Maximiliano Bagnasco paints a giant mural of socer star Lionel Messi in Wynwood, Miami's art district, in Miami, Florida on July 10, 2023. (Photo by Chandan Khanna/AFP Photo)





Workers unload from a semi-truck a part of a wall with the work of world-renowned graffiti artist Banksy which was dismounted from a residential building heavily damaged during Russia's attack in the town of Irpin, outside of Kyiv, Ukraine on May 13, 2023. (Photo by Vladyslav Musiienko/Reuters)





A Romanian elderly man reads a newspaper on a bench, with a painting on the Ukraine war theme displayed on the wall of Mihai Bravu Technical College building in the background, during the first day of the teachers' general strike, in Bucharest, Romania, 22 May 2023. About 150,000 teachers are striking across Romania in an ongoing dispute over pay and conditions, after the negotiations between the government and education workers trade union failed on 21 May. Romanian teachers called for the government to consider their demands for wage restoration, better working conditions and better wages for debutant teachers. The Federation of Education Trade Unions announced that the duration of the strike depends on the government's response to the teachers' requests, advising parents to keep their children at home. (Photo by Robert Ghement/EPA/EFE)





People walk by a mural of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic vandalized with red paint in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, May 8, 2023. Mladic is serving a life sentence for genocide during the 1992-95 War in Bosnia but whom many Serbs still consider a hero. (Photo by Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo)





A woman uses an umbrella to take shelter from the sun as she walks in downtown Rome, Thursday, July 13, 2023. An intense heat wave has reached Italy, bringing temperatures close to 40 degrees Celsius in many cities across the country. (Photo by Alessandra Tarantino/AP Photo)





The fifth Yardworks festival of urban art in the West End of Glasgow, United Kingdom on May 7, 2023 featured more than 100 graffiti artists from Scotland and around the world. (Photo by Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian)





A soldier walks past a mural near the National Assembly the day after the body was disolved by President Guillermo Lasso in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, May 18, 2023. Lawmakers were moving forward with impeachment proceedings against the president on embezzlement charges when he disolved it, and now residents are expected to elect a new president and a new lawmakers in no more than 90 days. (Photo by Dolores Ochoa/AP Photo)





A man rides a motorcycle by a mural reading: “Good, please block the weapons and save this world” in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, May 9, 2023. After two back-to-back mass killings that left 17 dead and 21 injured last week in Belgrade and two villages south of the capital, people were shocked. But many were not surprised in a country where war criminals are often glorified, where minority groups are harassed, where violence is openly displayed in the mainstream state-controlled media and where every second household has at least a gun stacked in a cupboard. (Photo by Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo)





A man walks past a mural along a street in New Delhi on June 30, 2023. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





A fresco named Angele by Swiss artist Jasm One, part of the “Open Air Museum” project of the Art Valais Wallis residence to create the world's largest open-air urban art museum, in Saviese, Switzerland, 24 May 2023. The Art Valais project, which covers an Alpine territory of 5,224 km2, linking the Rhone glacier in St-Gingolph and Lake Geneva, aims to bring the art of major metropolises and artists of international stature to the heart of the Alps in order to question and raise the awareness of the general public about the value of our natural and cultural resources. (Photo by Gabriel Monnet/EPA/EFE)





A person walks past graffiti that reads “Not My King” in London, Britain on May 9, 2023. (Photo by Henry Nicholls/Reuters)





Aerial view of a giant mural by artist Cobre depicting Argentina football player Lionel Messi with the World Cup Trophy on June 29, 2023 in Santa Fe, Argentina. Street artist Cobre is working on a record breaking 75 meter tall mural to honor Lionel Messi. (Photo by Leandro Vallerino/Getty Images)





A dove painted by artist TvBoy adorns the wall of a building damaged by Russian shelling attacks in Irpin, Ukraine, Friday, July 7, 2023. (Photo by Jae C. Hong/AP Photo)