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.
It's no surprise that Brazil's favelas, or slums, can be bleak places to live. In one neighborhood, a sign on a wall ridden with bullet holes reads, 'Attention neighbors. In days of war, avoid ...
One building is impossibly cantilevered, seemingly set for an inevitable crash. Another resembles the game of Jenga, with blocks of concrete stacked in strange configurations. Perhaps ...
Are you a fan of small government? Then you'll love John Zeifel, a model maker who did the President one step better: he didn't just make it to the White House, he made the White House. His ...
We crave celebrity. We obsess over the minutia of celebrity lives, watch every movie of our favorite actors, and buy every endorsed product they throw their smiles behind. With celebrity so ...
Amid the sea of digital art displayed online, many artists get lost, but there's simply no way to overlook the bizarre robotic creatures and complex machinery of Kazuhiko Nakamura. Eschewing the ...
Evol is a Berlin based artist who is his own kind of urban planner. Like Russian dolls, Evol's creations are a city within the city; he specializes in stenciling intricate building details onto ...
It's “an elusive pirate treasure of contemporary art” - an abandoned subway chamber under Manhattan that was illegally opened for a year starting in 2009 to allow 103 select artists to paint ...
It's a case of life imitating art: photographs of full-sized objects or scenes that look like tiny, perfectly constructed models. Tilt-shift photography, whether using a real tilt-shift lens or ...
Lisa Black is a New Zealand artist with some macabre subject matter... she loves to take taxidermy to a disturbing new level that transforms animals into half animal / half machine hybrids. Her ...
How do you make a full-sized commercial airplane look like a toy, or give the illusion that your human subject is touching a cloud? Photoshop is an easy answer, but a much more low-tech method ...
