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Sur Les Murs

French documentary television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ137324250
Source-derived summary

Sur les murs is a French street-art documentary series hosted by sculptor and artist Richard Orlinski on TV5Monde. Part of the series' objectives is to examine the state of street art culture in the post-COVID world. Each episode includes an original interview with a French-speaking street artist and the creation of a collaboration piece. Artists featured include up-and-coming talents as well as established street artists from different cities around the world.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sur Les Murs” is french documentary television series. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Murs, French and documentary, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current 71-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Murs, French and documentary is the immediate research focus.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q137324250. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from Sur Les Murs” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.