Artwork Files

An Artwork File gathers everything we can verify about one artwork: who made it, when and where, the artist’s own photos, local news, official records, and whether it is still there. Every fact links to its source and carries a label from How We Verify Art.

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78 of these 1165 works are gone. The files show how and when, from dated sources.

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Seen from above, Hopare’s 2021 floor mural at Forum des Halles in Paris: a huge woman’s face in a red patterned shawl painted across the patio

Un tissu à la conquête du monde

Paris, France · 4 independent source groups

Status checked 27 Oct 2026

A 250 m² face painted on the Forum des Halles floor in 2021, replaced the next year.

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Patrick Dougherty’s stickwork sculpture at the U.S. Botanic Garden: tall, curving rooms woven from thousands of thin bare saplings, with arched openings, under a gray sky

O Say Can You See

Washington, D.C., United States · 5 confirming sources

Status checked 27 Oct 2026

A walk-in sapling sculpture for the Botanic Garden’s 200th birthday.

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Arthur Mamou-Mani’s Galaxia, the 2018 Burning Man Temple: a tall spiral of wooden trusses rising to one point, lit gold from inside at night in the Nevada desert

Black Rock Desert, Nevada · 4 confirming sources

Status checked 27 Oct 2026

The 2018 Burning Man Temple: a timber spiral built to burn.

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Dozens of old gravestones stacked in overlapping rings around the base of the Hardy Tree, an ash in the churchyard of St Pancras Old Church in London, behind black railings

London, United Kingdom · 4 confirming sources

Status checked 26 Oct 2026

A former tree surrounded by a ring of gravestones in St Pancras Gardens.

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A round iron ball lodged in the roots at the foot of a big elm trunk on a street corner on rue Saint-Louis in Old Quebec, Canada, with a stone house and a white wooden door behind

Arbre au boulet

Québec City, Canada · 3 confirming sources

Status checked 26 Oct 2026

A former elm with an iron sphere embedded among its roots.

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A small pigeon sculpture in a traffic-cone hat reads “The Daily Dropping” on the head of Glasgow’s Duke of Wellington statue, in front of the Gallery of Modern Art.

Newspaper Pigeon

The Rebel Bear · Glasgow, UK · 2025 · 9 confirming sources

Status checked 26 Oct 2026

By July 2026 the Duke of Wellington was wearing stacked traffic cones again, and the pigeon was gone.

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Gone May 2003

Old Man of the Mountain

Franconia Notch, New Hampshire, USA · 3 confirming sources

Status checked 26 Oct 2026

A granite profile above Franconia Notch, New Hampshire's emblem, which collapsed in May 2003.

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Two children painted by SETH on facing buildings in Fontaine, France, each holding a cup while a real tram wire stretches between them overhead

The Wire (Le fil)

Fontaine, France · 3 confirming sources

Status checked 26 Oct 2026

Seth's The Wire in Fontaine, a two-wall mural from 2017, replaced by the artist in 2021.

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The Charging Bull sculpture in New York covered in pink, purple, black and green crochet

Crocheted Charging Bull

New York City, USA · 5 confirming sources

Status checked 26 Oct 2026

Olek's crocheted sweater for Wall Street's Charging Bull lasted only hours after Christmas 2010.

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House Attack by Erwin Wurm: an upside-down family house hanging roof first over the top of the grey stone façade of the mumok museum in Vienna, against a blue sky.

Erwin Wurm · Vienna, Austria · 2006 · 7 confirming sources

Status checked 22 Oct 2026

Wurm says the idea for House Attack emerged while planning his retrospective at mumok.

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A brick house with dangling roots hangs from a crane beside the Gothic tower of the Lourdes basilica in Bogotá, shown on a blurred background

Arrancada de raíz

Leandro Erlich · Bogotá, Colombia · 2025 · 10 confirming sources

Status checked 22 Oct 2026

Erlich designed this version for BOG25 after his first visit to Bogotá in 2025, modelled on houses from neighbourhoods like Chapinero and Teusaquillo.

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Close view of Do Ho Suh’s Bridging Home, London: a Korean hanok house with a curved tiled roof and patterned brick walls, tilted on the Wormwood Street footbridge in front of glass office towers.

Bridging Home, London

Do Ho Suh · London, UK · 2018 · 8 confirming sources

Status checked 22 Oct 2026

A to-scale replica of a traditional Korean hanok with a bamboo garden, it appeared to have fallen onto the footbridge at an angle.

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Mikael B’s giant duck sculpture in geometric blue, green and purple facets on the SLS Brickell rooftop in Miami.

Mikael B · Miami, USA · 2017 · 4 confirming sources

Status checked 21 Oct 2026

Mikael B named his painted Starck duck Safe Haven; by December 2022 the hotel’s duck wore another artist’s paint.

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A large oval section cut from the facade of the former Yates’s Wine Lodge on Moorfields, Liverpool, turned out of the wall mid-rotation above the old Yates’s Wine Lodge lettering, with boarded-up shopfronts below.

Turning the Place Over

Richard Wilson · Liverpool, England · 2007 · 10 confirming sources

Status checked 20 Oct 2026

Meant to come down at the end of 2008, it kept turning until January 2011.

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Leandro Erlich’s Dalston House in London: visitors lying on a Victorian house facade laid flat on the ground appear in the angled mirror above to hang from its windows and ledges.

Leandro Erlich · London, England · 2013 · 4 confirming sources

Status checked 20 Oct 2026

Built on a lot that had stood largely empty since it was bombed in the Second World War.

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Inakadate’s 2008 rice paddy art seen from above: the gods Daikokuten and Ebisu drawn in yellow, dark and pale rice across green paddies on either side of a road, with the village and mountains behind.

Ebisu and Daikokuten

Inakadate village · Aomori, Japan · 2008 · 5 confirming sources

Status checked 20 Oct 2026

The first Inakadate picture with white rice, planted as a wish for economic recovery.

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Anna Chromy’s bronze Il Commendatore beside the Estates Theatre in Prague: an empty hooded cloak seated on a low pedestal, with a dark hollow where the face should be, against the theatre’s pale stone wall, shown whole in the centre over a blurred copy of the same photo.

Il Commendatore

Anna Chromy · Prague, Czechia · 2000 · 5 confirming sources

Status checked 19 Oct 2026

An empty bronze cloak named for Mozart’s stone guest, removed from the Estates Theatre in November 2025 and put into storage, not destroyed.

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Maurice Nio’s orange Amazing Whale Jaw bus station in Hoofddorp, a long curved shell framing parked buses.

The Amazing Whale Jaw

Maurice Nio · Hoofddorp, Netherlands · 2003 · 4 confirming sources

Status checked 17 Oct 2026

The orange plastic jaw sheltered bus passengers for two decades; NH Nieuws reported it dismantled from March 2024.

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Heather Jansch’s The Eden Horse, a life-size horse built from pale, weathered driftwood branches, standing on a lawn in front of woodland.

Heather Jansch · Cornwall, England · 6 confirming sources

Status checked 17 Oct 2026

The driftwood horse that greeted Eden Project visitors for years is too fragile to show; Eden says it is being cast in bronze.

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Daniel Popper’s sculpture Hallow, a giant wood-textured woman pulling her chest open, on a lawn at The Morton Arboretum behind pink redbud blossoms.

Daniel Popper · Lisle, USA · 2021 · 7 confirming sources

Status checked 17 Oct 2026

Made to greet visitors at an Illinois arboretum from 2021 to 2023; a second Hallow now stands in Montgomery’s Freedom Monument Sculpture Park.

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Two giant white hands by Lorenzo Quinn rise from the Grand Canal in Venice and brace the facade of the Ca’ Sagredo Hotel, with gondolas and mooring poles in front.

Lorenzo Quinn · Venice, Italy · 2017 · 8 confirming sources

Status checked 17 Oct 2026

Quinn’s giant hands braced Ca’ Sagredo on the Grand Canal for the 2017 Biennale, then stayed until they were dismantled in spring 2018.

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Laika’s paste-up Gli Intoccabili in Rome: Benjamin Netanyahu in a dark suit and blue tie beside an Israeli soldier holding a rifle, both standing knee-deep in red liquid under a glass bell jar, above a plaque reading THE UNTOUCHABLES

Gli Intoccabili

Laika · Rome, Italy · 2026 · 5 confirming sources

Status checked 15 Oct 2026

Laika’s poster put Netanyahu under a bell jar in the Jewish Ghetto, and was reported torn down within hours.

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A handwritten sign on the glass door of The Next Page bookshop in Calgary asks customers to open the door carefully because a bat is sleeping on it; the small brown bat clings to the wooden frame beside it.

Sleeping Bat Sign

The Next Page bookshop · Calgary, Canada · 2021 · 3 confirming sources

Status checked 15 Oct 2026

A handwritten note asked customers to open the door carefully: a real bat was asleep on it.

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Black plywood shark fins rise out of a golden wheat field near Dublin, Ontario, beside a hand-lettered sign reading “Please do not feed the sharks”.

Great Wheat Sharks

Anne Melady · Dublin, Ontario, Canada · 2021 · 4 confirming sources

Status checked 15 Oct 2026

Plywood shark fins cruised through a wheat field until harvest, and drivers backed up for a second look.

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How a file is made

Start from a photoEvery file begins with a work we have published on World Art Utopia or Street Art Utopia.
Only confirmed worksWe make a file only when at least three independent sources confirm the work.
Local sources firstLocal news in the local language, city and festival records, the artist’s own posts and videos, and archived copies of news links.
Is it still there?The newest dated photo, satellite and Street View history, and official records decide the status. “Still there” always has a date.
Checked before it goes upEvery quote, date and link is checked against its source before a file is published.

Artwork Files · last updated 13 November 2026 · Certainty labels follow How We Verify Art.