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05/09/2026

The biggest surprise inside George Lucas’s new museum isn’t Star Wars. It’s Banksy.

Opening in Los Angeles on 22 September, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art brings cinema, painting, illustration, comics, photography, murals and street art into one continuous history of visual storytelling.

Across more than 30 galleries, over 1,300 works range from Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo and Norman Rockwell to the Lucas Archives and Star Wars in Motion.

On the fifth floor, a substantial Banksy installation features familiar images including Girl with Balloon, No Ball Games, Love Is in the Air, Mobile Lovers and the Flying Coppers. These sit alongside never-before-seen acquisitions obtained directly from Banksy’s studio.

The physical presentation matters. Brickwork, irregular edges and barbed wire remain visible, allowing the surfaces to carry part of each narrative instead of reducing the works to conventional framed objects.

Banksy is positioned alongside JR, Diego Rivera and Judith F. Baca as part of a longer history of stories told in public space.

As Lucas explains: “The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art was created to honor humanity’s stories and the artists who illustrate them.”

R2-D2 and Girl with Balloon come from radically different worlds, but both demonstrate how a recognisable image can travel beyond its original setting and become embedded within global visual culture.

From Star Wars to street walls, the medium changes. The power of the image does not.

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Photos by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art

05/09/2026

A photograph of children sheltering from bombs in 1941. More than eighty years later, children are still living through war, only now the rest of the world can watch almost in real time.

In THE WORLD BURNS WHILE WE SCROLL, Ricardo Romero turns that uncomfortable continuity into a luminous installation about memory, conflict and passive witnessing. The work asks a difficult question: when everyone can see what is happening, what does it mean when nothing changes?

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In THE WORLD BURNS WHILE WE SCROLL, Ricardo Romero reconstructs an archival photograph of Soviet children taken during an attack in the Second World War using painting screens and light, confronting a contemporary paradox in which images of war and human suffering can be witnessed across the world

04/09/2026

This is one of those artworks that completely changes when you see it from above. For Hard Court 2, Spok Brillor has taken the visual language of MRKA’s original court at Felipe Pantone’s Casa Axis and pushed it into an illusion of seemingly endless depth, turning the playing surface into a painted architectural void.

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04/09/2026

04/09/2026

Spok Brillor has transformed the tennis court at Felipe Pantone’s Casa Axis into Hard Court 2, a vast optical illusion that appears to fold the court into infinite depth.

The story behind it is just as good: MRKA created the original Hard Court, won the first C.A.I.O. artists’ tennis tournament, then passed the next intervention to Spok, who developed the court’s existing visual language rather than starting again.

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02/09/2026

HELCH: Remembering the British Graffiti Writer 🖤

British graffiti writer HELCH has passed away, leaving behind one of the most recognisable bodies of large-scale graffiti seen across London and southern England in recent years. His monumental roller pieces occupied railway viaducts, motorway bridges, rooftops and buildings with an instinctive und

02/09/2026

We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of HELCH.

A true original and one of the defining figures of contemporary British graffiti, HELCH transformed the country’s bridges, rooftops and forgotten architecture into his own vast, uncompromising canvas. Whether written in monumental letters or reduced to a single H, his name became part of the landscape, impossible to ignore and impossible to forget.

His work embodied the freedom and sheer determination at the heart of graffiti. He made his mark, in every sense.
Our thoughts are with his family, friends and everyone who knew and loved him.

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27/08/2026

Nine years ago, Bordalo II bolted a frog 🐸 built from Lisbon’s discarded plastic to a wall in Xabregas. It was the first street piece in his Plastic Trash Animals series, the origin of every giant animal that followed. On 14 August, he took it down and built its successor in its place.

Half-Half Koala 🐨 now holds the same wall on Rua da Manutenção. One half wears the species’ grey fur. The other exposes what the fur is made of: hoses, crates, corrugated plastic, doll limbs projecting from its ear, and a fragment of municipal signage reading “Limpeza Urbana Lixo,” the language of waste management turned into waste itself. The grey half is the same debris, painted.

Announcing the change, the artist wrote: “This half-half koala replaced our old plastic frog in Xabregas.”

Half animal, half waste. Which side caught your eye first?

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Images and video copyright Bordaloll Spybook .

18/08/2026

🐸After nine years watching over Xabregas, Bordalo II’s much-loved Plastic Frog has made way for a new Half Half koala. 🐨

Read more in our latest feature.

Portuguese artist Bordalo II has unveiled a new Half-Half Koala in Lisbon’s Xabregas district, replacing the colourful Plastic Frog that occupied the same wall on Rua da Manutenção from 2017 until 2026. The Plastic Frog was his first piece of his series of works Plastic Trash Animals for his so