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.

The files

78 of these 1188 works are gone. The files show how and when, from dated sources.

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Pejac's bitten shark fins rising from a Shibuya pavement in Tokyo

Pejac · Tokyo, Japan · 5 independent sources

Last checked 14 Nov 2026

Pejac told Time Out Tokyo he wanted to show what a shark feels when threatened by people.

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The Rebel Bear's spy stencil hiding behind a newspaper beside a cash machine in Leith, Edinburgh

The Government Times

The Rebel Bear · Edinburgh, Scotland · 3 independent sources

Last checked 14 Nov 2026

The newspaper the spy hides behind is called The Government Times, and its lines are about surveillance.

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Amado Skills' Cehegín mural of a young woman with two swallows in flight

Los pajaritos de Cehegín

Amado Skills · Cehegín, Spain · 3 independent sources

Last checked 14 Nov 2026

A young woman and two swallows on the Gran Vía, painted for the opening of Estrenarte 2026 in Cehegín.

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Herr Nilsson's Cinderella in a blue ball gown on a dark Stockholm wall at dusk, holding a knife behind her back

Herr Nilsson · Stockholm, Sweden · 3 independent sources

Last checked 14 Nov 2026

One of Herr Nilsson’s Dark Princesses: Disney heroines with knives and guns, reported on Stockholm walls in July 2013.

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The iron-gated cave entrance of Budapest's Cave Church in the rock of Gellért Hill.

Gellért Hill Cave Church

Kálmán Lux / Pauline Order · Budapest, Hungary · 4 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

A chunk of the concrete wall that sealed the church is kept by the entrance, its plaque dating the wall’s fall to 26 February 1992.

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Inside the Temple Cave at Batu Caves: a painted temple tower beneath towering limestone walls lit by daylight.

K. Thamboosamy Pillai (founder) · Batu Caves, Malaysia · 4 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

Thamboosamy Pillai is said to have read the cave mouth as Lord Murugan’s spear, and placed a vel inside in 1888.

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Postojna Cave train cars waiting beside a platform inside the cave in Slovenia

Postojna Cave Railway

Postojna Cave Park · Postojna, Slovenia · 4 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

The cave’s operator says its 1872 line was the first documented railway in an underground cave, first worked by guides moving four-seat carriages.

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Stone tuberculosis hut from the 1840s inside Mammoth Cave, Kentucky

Tuberculosis Huts

Dr. John Croghan · Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, United States · 4 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

Enslaved workers built two stone and eight wooden huts for TB patients about a mile into the cave; only the two stone huts survive.

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Sunbeams pouring into Tham Khao Luang cave sanctuary, Phetchaburi

Tham Khao Luang

Kings Rama IV and Rama V · Phetchaburi, Thailand · 4 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

Fearing thieves would strip the gold leaf from its Buddhas, Rama IV hired local villagers to guard the cave.

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Blue-lit auditorium seating inside St. Michael’s Cave, Gibraltar

St. Michael’s Cave Auditorium

Cave chamber converted to a theater · Upper Rock, Gibraltar · 3 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

The cave was converted into a WWII emergency hospital that was never used, and some stalactites were cut to build it.

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Chandelier hanging from the rock ceiling of the Volcano Room, an underground concert space in Cumberland Caverns, Tennessee

Roy Davis / Cumberland Caverns · McMinnville, Tennessee, USA · 4 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

Roy Davis, buying a pipe organ from a Brooklyn theater, offered to take its 1,500-pound chandelier too; the pair cost $1,000.

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Rows of seats beneath the arching rock roof of the Cave Church of Saint Simon in Cairo’s Mokattam hill

Cave Church of Saint Simon

Zabbaleen Coptic community · Cairo, Egypt · 4 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

Youm7 reported in April 2026 that about 1 million tons of rock and debris were cleared over some 10 years to turn the cave into a church.

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Cliffside cave chapel of Covadonga above a waterfall in Asturias, Spain

Luis Menéndez Pidal (reform) · Covadonga, Spain · 3 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

The cave’s first church hung on beams wedged into the rock, and it burned with the original Virgin in 1777.

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Kuha Karuhas Pavilion lit by a beam of sunlight inside Phraya Nakhon Cave, Thailand

Kuha Karuhas Pavilion

King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) · Phraya Nakhon Cave, Thailand · 3 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

The pavilion was built in Bangkok and carried to the cave in parts, where King Chulalongkorn raised its roof finial himself.

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Sylvia Plath's headstone in Heptonstall, West Yorkshire, with pens and small tributes pushed into the soil in front of it

Sylvia Plath’s Grave

Heptonstall · West Yorkshire, UK · 4 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

A 2018 photograph records pens and pencils pushed into the soil of the grave.

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Jim Morrison's grave in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, behind a barrier, covered with flowers and photos left by fans

Jim Morrison’s Grave

Père Lachaise Cemetery · Paris, France · 6 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

The bust that vanished from the grave in 1988 was found by Paris police on May 18, 2025.

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H. P. Lovecraft's gray headstone reading I AM PROVIDENCE in Swan Point Cemetery, with small offerings left by readers

H. P. Lovecraft’s Grave

Swan Point Cemetery · Providence, USA · 4 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

Brown University’s Lovecraft collection lists photos of workers installing the fan-funded stone in August 1977.

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Bon Scott's memorial in Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia, with his bronze plaque and tributes left by fans

Bon Scott’s Memorial

Fremantle Cemetery · Western Australia · 5 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

ABC reported in 2006 that a stolen plaque honoring Scott would be replaced by the National Trust.

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Franz Kafka's pointed, crystal-shaped gray gravestone in the New Jewish Cemetery, Prague, with stones and flowers left by visitors

Franz Kafka’s Grave

New Jewish Cemetery · Prague, Czech Republic · 7 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

Sources disagree on which Ehrmann designed the crystal-shaped stone: Leopold or Friedrich.

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The marble ledger stone of Benjamin and Deborah Franklin in Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, with pennies left by visitors

Benjamin Franklin’s Grave

Christ Church Burial Ground · Philadelphia, USA · 5 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

WHYY reported that the marker was elevated and moved slightly in the 2017 repair to improve drainage.

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The side-by-side graves of Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee at Lake View Cemetery, Seattle, with flowers left by visitors

Bruce and Brandon Lee’s Graves

Kirk McLean (Brandon’s memorial) · Seattle, USA · 8 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

Kirk McLean’s own portfolio gives the date, material and size of Brandon’s memorial.

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Douglas Adams' gray headstone reading Writer 1952-2001 in Highgate Cemetery, with a 42 sign, a pot of pens and a thank-you card

Douglas Adams’ Grave

Highgate Cemetery East · London, UK · 5 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

An April 2026 photograph shows pens set in the ground in front of the headstone.

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Dobby's grave at Freshwater West: a mound of painted pebbles, socks and messages on the sand dunes, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Dobby’s Grave

Built by visitors · Freshwater West, Wales, UK · 3 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

Countryfile reports that fans’ calls led to an undersea power cable being rerouted around the grave.

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The Family of Man in Calgary: a ring of very tall, thin aluminium human figures with outstretched arms standing on a lawn among downtown office towers.

The Family of Man

Mario Armengol · Calgary, Canada · 6 independent sources

Last checked 13 Nov 2026

CBC reports the circle was an accident: the figures came in crates without instructions and city staff chose the layout.

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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 14 November 2026 · Certainty labels follow How We Verify Art.