It’s getting hard to keep track of all the murals being painted in Buffalo right now. 

In June, the University at Buffalo painted a 36-foot-tall portrait of James Joyce on a brick wall downtown, to celebrate the coming centennial of his 1922 novel Ulysses. (The university is home to the world’s largest collection of James Joyce’s manuscripts and materials.) Then an image of civil rights icon John Lewis was unveiled on the side of a community services center on the city’s East Side. The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, which has used its unique public art program since 2014 to bring in painters from all over the world, has added angular spectrums of color by Josef Kristofoletti on two sections of an affordable housing complex under construction downtown, and a wall of geometric forms by Maya Hayuk on a dynamic new community health center on the West Side. Even the city’s tallest building — a stoic 1970s concrete office tower now experiencing an anything-goes reimagination courtesy its maverick new owner — is getting a two-sided mural along its notoriously stark Main Street underpass.