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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A giant wooden clothespin grips the top of a grassy mound in a park in Chaudfontaine

Mehmet Ali Uysal · Chaudfontaine, Belgium · 4 independent sources

Status checked 13 Nov 2026

A photographer’s caption says the six-metre clothespin was replaced in 2020 by a parasol.

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Bordalo II's giant red squirrel made from scrap metal and other waste on the side of a corner building in Dublin, holding a pale nut above a row of posters.

Bordalo II · 2017 · Dublin, Ireland · 8 independent sources

Status checked 12 Nov 2026

Built from Dublin scrap on The Workshop Gastro Pub in April 2017; 98FM reported in June 2019 that it was coming down.

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The small stone Abbot Pass Hut on a rocky saddle at the foot of a huge layered cliff in the Canadian Rockies, photographed in 2018.

Ed Feuz and Rudolph Aemmer · 1922 · Abbot Pass, Canada · 5 independent sources

Status checked 12 Nov 2026

Crews taking the hut apart in June 2022 found names the Swiss guides had inscribed into its walls, the Rocky Mountain Outlook reported.

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A lone seven-story brick building, a so-called nail house, standing on cleared ground near Shenzhen North Railway Station, China, in 2016

Shenzhen Nail House

Ms. Yang (owner) · Shenzhen, China · 5 independent sources

Status checked 10 Nov 2026

The last holdout by Shenzhen North Station, torn down in 2017

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The Arecibo radio telescope’s huge dish in a green valley with its receiver platform hanging from cables above

Arecibo Telescope

William E. Gordon (Cornell) · 1963 · Arecibo, Puerto Rico · 5 independent sources

Status checked 9 Nov 2026

Puerto Rico’s 305-metre radio dish was the backdrop for GoldenEye’s climactic action scene before its platform crashed into it in December 2020.

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1929 aerial photo of the Chrysler dealership building in Buenos Aires with a round banked test track on its roof

Estadio Olimpo Rooftop Track

Mario Palanti (architect) · 1928 · Buenos Aires, Argentina · 4 independent sources

Status checked 9 Nov 2026

Mario Palanti’s 1928 Chrysler dealership in Buenos Aires had a banked test track on its roof.

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A woman reclines in a curved wooden SOFT Rocker lounger with a solar panel arched over it at MIT

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA · 6 independent sources

Status checked 8 Nov 2026

Solar-powered rocking loungers that charged phones in Killian Court during MIT’s 2011 festival.

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A tall snow copy of the Venus de Milo standing in a snowy street at night in Alcalá de Henares

Venus de Milo de nieve

Alcalá de Henares, Spain · 3 independent sources

Status checked 7 Nov 2026

Two friends meant to build a snowman during Storm Filomena and carved a Venus de Milo from a three-metre snow pile instead.

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A boy in an orange T-shirt and helmet crouching between wide blue-grey wings painted across windows, on a blurred background.

Angels Come in Various Sizes

Herakut · 2011 · Culver City, USA · 4 independent sources

Status checked 7 Nov 2026

Its own words: “Angels come in various sizes.” Culver City, April 2011.

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A girl in a blue dress under the word “ART?”, with peacock feathers ending in human eyes, on a white building, on a blurred background.

Eyes in the Feathers

Herakut · 2011 · Culver City, USA · 3 independent sources

Status checked 7 Nov 2026

Painted in April 2011 on the Branded Arts Building; gone by 2015.

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Manuel Marotto's 2020 Colorfall rainbow running down the Santa Lucia church stairs in Arzachena, Sardinia, framed by a blurred copy of the same photo

Manuel Marotto · 2020 · Arzachena, Italy · 4 independent sources

Status checked 7 Nov 2026

A rainbow “cascade of colours” poured down the Santa Lucia church stairs for the 2020 summer festival; the 2021 edition replaced it.

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The giant blonde head and one bent knee of Oliver Voss’s floating sculpture Die Badende rise from Hamburg’s Inner Alster, with the Lombardsbrücke and city buildings behind

Oliver Voss · 2011 · Hamburg, Germany · 7 independent sources

Status checked 6 Nov 2026

A 20.45-meter bather built in Dresden on hidden pontoons, whose head and knees rose from the Inner Alster from 2 to 11 August 2011.

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A man lies in a hammock slung between the concrete posts of a chain-link border fence on flat, dry farmland under a blue sky.

Border (Hammock)

Murat Gök · Mardin, Turkey · 5 independent sources

Status checked 1 Nov 2026

A brief 2010 action on the Turkey–Syria border, too dangerous to last; it survives as a photograph.

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Gyoda’s 2013 rice paddy art: a woman in a pale-green robe above a huge lotus, formed by coloured rice plants.

Spirit of the Ancient Lotus

Teruko Kogure · Gyoda, Japan · 3 independent sources

Status checked 31 Oct 2026

Gyoda’s first Guinness bid with this rice picture failed in August 2013 because the yellow rice grew poorly and soil showed through.

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Ian Mutch's Head in the Sand: a giant figure raked into a beach near Wyadup Rocks, Western Australia, its head buried in the sand

Head in the Sand

Ian Mutch · Wyadup, Australia · 4 independent sources

Status checked 31 Oct 2026

Mutch raked this giant figure into the sand a few days before the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, as a response to panic buying; the tide took it within days.

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A huge rice-straw Tyrannosaurus with gaping jaws on the grass of Uwasekigata Park, Niigata, with a visitor posing inside its lower jaw.

Musashino Art University students and local residents · Niigata, Japan · 5 independent sources

Status checked 31 Oct 2026

Niigata City says this straw dinosaur was one of six works on show at Uwasekigata Park until 1 November 2015.

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A giant red-haired figure depicting Yayoi Kusama leans over Louis Vuitton's Paris building on the Champs-Élysées, appearing to paint colored dots on its facade.

Giant Yayoi Kusama Figure

Louis Vuitton · Paris, France · 3 independent sources

Status checked 31 Oct 2026

Euronews described it as a giant inflatable mannequin depicting Kusama, seen “painting” the dots on Louis Vuitton’s Champs-Élysées store.

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People pose on a narrow triangle of black-and-white paving above a rocky pit in Erik Johansson's printed perspective illusion Mind Your Step at Sergels torg, Stockholm.

Erik Johansson · Stockholm, Sweden · 2011 · 4 independent sources

Status checked 31 Oct 2026

The bottomless pit in Stockholm's main square was a 32 × 18 metre printed mat, rolled out for six days in June 2011.

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A giant crocodile made of rice straw with its jaws wide open and rows of straw teeth, lying on grass in a park, with mountains and a wooden bridge behind.

Straw Crocodile

Musashino Art University students · Niigata, Japan · 2017 · 4 independent sources

Status checked 29 Oct 2026

A visit report on PARTNER says the crocodile was posed coming out of the pond next to it, and was hollow so people could go in.

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Bordalo II's Salamander in Águeda: a giant black and orange salamander built from car parts and plastic waste, lying on a painted turquoise pond on a paved square, with a person photographing it.

Bordalo II · Águeda, Portugal · 2015 · 6 independent sources

Status checked 29 Oct 2026

A local blog says the salamander was meant to stay 4 months, stayed almost 7, then went back to the scrap heap.

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The Crooked House

The Crooked House

3 independent sources

Status checked 29 Oct 2026

A 1765 farmhouse became a famously leaning pub before fire and demolition ended it in 2023.

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Anonymouse’s miniature amusement park Tjoffsans tivoli on a Malmö sidewalk: a white Ferris wheel, a teacup ride, a red popcorn wagon, small game stalls and a cat-head tunnel ride on a patch of grass behind a low blue picket fence, set against the foot of a graffiti-covered utility box

Tjoffsans tivoli

Anonymouse · Malmö, Sweden · 2017 · 6 confirming sources

Status checked 28 Oct 2026

A mouse-sized funfair at Solters plan that lasted only a few weeks: opened 23 April 2017, packed up by its makers in May.

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DALeast’s Abhassara Mote in San Diego: a tall human figure of black wire-like strokes seems to come apart on a gray wall above a small doorway

DALeast · San Diego, USA · 2014 · 3 confirming sources

Status checked 27 Oct 2026

Painted for shark conservation in November 2014; the organizer says it is gone, a mural site still calls it permanent.

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Villu Jaanisoo’s Everything Is Possible in Helsinki: a seated gorilla built from overlapping black car tyres in front of a curved glass building on the Viikki campus

Kaikki on mahdollista

Villu Jaanisoo · Helsinki, Finland · 2009 · 6 independent source groups

Status checked 27 Oct 2026

A five-metre gorilla of used car tyres on the Viikki campus, burned in a night fire in January 2018.

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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.