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Category: Street Art & Graffiti

From 3D graffiti to light art, these works reflect the cutting edge of contemporary urban street art and design. These graffiti and street artists employee the latest techniques, creative materials, and unusual strategies to challenge the conventional stencil-and-spray-paint approach that most people think of when it comes to public drawing and wall graffiti the world over.

Banksy Crashes the Venice Biennale with a Critical Street Stall

Why, Banksy wonders, has he never been invited to the Venice Biennale? Perhaps because they knew he’d do something just like this, invited or not. The elusive British street artist set up an ...

R2D2 Makeover: Star Wars-Themed Space Observatory in Germany

In its original blank state, an observatory in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany was practically begging for a Star Wars-themed paint job. It was already the perfect shape for its transformation into ...

Character Type: 3D Typographic Skate Obstacles in Rotterdam

Get a little too artsy with skate obstacles and you might end up with objects that just aren't all that fun or functional for their intended purpose. But when Rotterdam design studio Opperclaes ...

Somnambulist Manifestos: 10 Graffitied Old Mattresses

Abandoned mattresses are a graffiti artist's dream: street-level billboards ideally placed to expose art and opinions to a society sleepwalking thru life. In De Nihilism They say nothing ...

Maximalist Makeovers: Transforming Architecture with Vivid Paint Jobs

Minimalism is chic and trendy, but sometimes, there’s nothing more satisfying than blotting out bland and boring surfaces with bold splashes of color and pattern. That’s especially true when ...

The Great Wave: Iconic Hokusai Work Splashes Across Moscow Apartments

In Moscow, the iconic “Great Wave off Kanagawa” woodblock print by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai has reached greater heights than ever before as it breaks across the facades of six ...

From Pompeii to Gaza: The History of Street Art as a Voice for the People

Over the past half-century, street art has evolved from squiggled lettering on subway cars to a cultural force practiced in virtually every corner of the globe. It began unsanctioned and ...

Life-Sized Interactive Drawings by Levalet Envision a Parallel Universe

Life-sized street art interventions play out scenes from a parallel universe on public surfaces all around us in the interactive works of French artist Levalet. Raised in Guadeloupe, France, the ...

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 ...

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