WTF Is Street Art? Poster Boy Edits NYC Sign by High Line
If you have spent any time along the High Line Park in Chelsea, you will recognize this extremely prominent billboard that one artist had the audacity to climb and hack away at. The ...
Category: Art
Urban art is at the heart of WebUrbanist – the drawings, images, photos and sculptures that inspire us in part because they are open to the public. From installation artworks to street graffiti and everything in between, here is our extensive collection of urban street art gathered from around the world and representing both traditional techniques and innovative approaches by old and new street artists alike.
Spinning Canvas: Color & Gravity Create Brush-Free Paintings
Calculation meets chaos in the work of Amy Shackleton, a painter who works without brushes to create masterful yet whimsical urban and natural landscapes. Her dynamic paintings are the ...
Reflections from Above: Mirrored Skyscraper Illusion Photos
Illuminated cityscapes multiply and divide in unexpected ways when their nighttime reflections hit the mirrored facades of the skyscrapers found within them. Photographer Donna Dotan, known for her ...
The City’s a Playground for Cartoon Characters by OakOak
Anything from a crooked cinder block to an ephemeral beam of light falling across the street can inspire a playful interactive scene by French street artist OakOak, making passersby stop and smile. ...
Surreal World: 14 Reality-Bending Mirror Art Installations
Cabins vanish into the landscape like a mirage, tiny rooms filled with stars somehow go on forever and treetops float in mid-air in these reality-distorting illusions made using mirrors. With ...
Stairs to Nowhere: Half-Finished Fire Escape Inside a Church
A mass of reclaimed, weathered wood of all shapes and sizes rises up to the cathedral ceiling of the Church of St. Peter the Puellier in Mairie d'Orleans - but don't expect these stairs to go ...
No Mirage: Unlock a Secret Pool Hidden in the Mojave Desert
An art installation with a side of rugged adventure, the Social Pool is a project open to the public but locked and with a location only revealed via coordinates that lead visitors on a long trek ...
Sprawling Vision of the Past: American Suburbs From Above
Suburbs are far older than most of us tend to realize, but when we talk about urban sprawl we most often think of the planned communities that popped up during the industrial revolution. ...
Time-Traveling Trams: 30,000 LED Lights Vanish Street Trains
Extended exposure photography combined with a unique art installation project creates an incredible time lapse illusion on the streets of Budapest, making train cars appear to disappear in a ...
Perspectival Street Artist Pierces People in New Photo Shoot
Known for his geometric art installations, Aakash Nihalani is back with a mind-bending sequence of shots that show humans interacting with his reality-warping work. In ...
