The Embassy of Portugal has added more character to the ... dubbed "Scratching the Surface," on the wall of the embassy. Vhils is known for installing amazing wall carvings under his Scratch ...

Portugal’s rural Alentejo region, best known for its wide plains punctuated with whitewashed medieval hilltop towns and olive groves, is now home to a unique, art-filled boutique hotel, Dá Licenca.

If the history is recent, the wall is flat, it doesn’t have many layers, and this has a meaning too,” he said. Vhils, who started out as a graffiti artist in Portugal, carved his first wall in ...