Exhibits On The Beach: Sculpture By The Sea Makes Waves
'Sculpture by the Sea' returns to Sydney's beautiful Bondi Beach, featuring awesome open-air art exhibits by over 130 artists from 21 countries. Now celebrating its 22nd year on 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.
Subjective City: Massive Wall Map of NYC Assembled from Handwritten Directions
A few years back, artist Nobutaka Aozaki started asking directions from strangers on the streets of Manhattan, then collecting those maps (hand-drawn from memory) to assemble into a huge and ...
Hidden Depths: 20 Tentacles of Lurking Sea Creature Sprout from Warehouse
Any horror fan knows hinting at a larger evil with teaser visuals is a classic trick, like letting viewers imagine, for instance, what kind of hideous invader might be putting feelers out the ...
Unseen Movements: Multi-Shot Photography Captures the Complex Trails of Birds
For all the effort we humans put into light art, birds have us beat - we just don’t realize it most of the time, because their work is invisible to us. Spanish photographer Xavi Bou reveals the ...
Warnings at Scale: Tiny Signs Highlight Hazards of a Miniaturized World
What may look like a harmless pothole or random remainder of grass takes on a different meaning when viewed from the perspective of the ultra-small, becoming dangerous sinkholes or inviting plots ...
Cross-Stitch Murals Bring a Traditionally Domestic Craft Out Into the World
Often viewed as the domain of women within the home, the art of cross-stitch embroidery escapes its boundaries and finds a new footing within the modern world in works by Aheneah, also known as ...
Peeled to Reveal: Condemned Building Neatly “Unzipped” Along its Facades
Cracked open like a coat (or pair of pants), the walls of this structure in England, have been opened up to expose its abandoned interior ahead of its scheduled demolition. "Open to the ...
Fake News: Miniature Signs Around the City Convey Confusing Messages
If all the official signage that can be found around an average city bores you, you might not even notice the ones that are a little bit off, warning you of dangerous pigeons and tiny sinkholes ...
Seven-Story Neoclassical Painting by William Bouguereau Looms Over Memphis
A little girl from William Bouguereau’s 1886 painting 'Au pied de la falaise' looks out over the city of Memphis from the side of a seven-story building, freed from the original work's confines ...
File Under Fiction: Artful Self-Help Book Covers Speak to Human Conditions
Like the old "picture worth 1,000 words" adage, these book covers use just a little language and as context for larger messages. Perhaps the more appropriate phrase would be some turn on: "what ...
