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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.

Four-Dimensional Murals: Artist Folds Space Inside Architectural Facades

Folding and flexible geometric forms seem to weave in and out of the structures graced with murals by David Louf (known as Mr. June), seeming to imply what a blank facade could have been in the ...

Bought to be Destroyed: Artist Ron English Will Whitewash His New Banksy

Street artist Ron English paid over $730K for a work of art by Banksy - and he plans to paint over it. It might sound like some kind of silly high-profile artist feud, but English harbors no ...

Wave Forms for Artists & Artisans: Free Vintage Design Guide to Japanese Waves

In Japan, an island nation, waves are symbols long found in a vast array of art, design and craft from around the country, which one author decided to systemize in a three-book series now ...

Wild Waste: Giant Trash Animals Nest Inside Abandoned Las Vegas Motel

A classic mid-century roadside motel in Las Vegas has been turned into a fantastically colorful habitat for a series of huge animals, constructed from waste collected from dumpsters, abandoned ...

We Could All Use a Little More Chindogu, the Japanese Art of Useless Inventions

A little bit Dada, a little bit "only sold on television," intentionally useless inventions called Chindogu look like a bunch of plastic junk at first glance, but there’s more to it than that. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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