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.
As China has transformed from a largely agricultural society to an industrial superpower, vastly changing its landscape with both construction equipment and the unintended effects of climate ...
These six super-short videos are an architectural tour de force for visual learners bent on absorbing as much as possible in as little time as needed. Narrated by actor Ewan McGregor, the Design ...
White wall frames cracked red bricks shaped like rust-colored autumn leaves, all trailing down to a black silhouette of a painter and his bucket - but looks can be deceiving, and this lovely ...
In this strange circus performance piece, two travelers turn architectural conventions on end, moving an offbeat nomadic home through a comedic narrative via carefully choreographic actions. A ...
Some of the world's greatest abstract artists have created portraits of humans that, while inspired by the human form, have completely dispensed with any actual human's natural ...
For the last two years, artist Ian Strange has traveled the East Coast of the United States, painting suburban homes in shocking shades of red and black, and in some cases, burning them down. The ...
If castles of sand are ordinarily creative (if childish) works of artistic expression, then these are their opposite - boring and relentless repetition of identical houses inspired by postwar ...
Body modification is a broad category that covers anything from socially acceptable ear piercings to culturally mandated circumcisions, but there's a small niche in this category that involves ...
A photo-realistic mural with a nuanced message, this giant work of wall art is impressive in scale and a definite surprise to passers by. Complete with shade and shadow, the huge on-and-off power ...
We've all seen hipsters in the wild, and even if we can't perfectly define what a hipster is, we know one when we see one. Parisian artist Léo Caillard does too, and he wondered what this modern ...
