Street Origami: 30,000 Pieces Folded to Create Colorful Art
An urban art play in multiple acts, this staged installation colorfully spans brick walls, stone steps and wood facades as part of an art festival in Angers, France. Mademoiselle ...
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.
Crack the Code in London Street Art Created for Tech Fest
If you're among the attendees of international technology festival Campus Party, which will take place during the first week of September in London, you have a much better chance of cracking the ...
Painted Shadows: Dark Art Haunts Deserted Psychiatric Hospital
Eerie shadows float out of empty wheelchairs, trailing up cracked and peeling walls and slinking under doorways in a series of paintings in an abandoned mental hospital by Brazilian artist ...
Time-Lapse Tagging: Short Film Reveals Secrets of Graffiti
You see the finished pieces all over - ornate, curved and layered - but rarely get such a vivid and complete all-angle, real-time view of how their tags come together. If you are even remotely ...
Art of Absence: Brick Street Mural Made of Unpainted Void
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 ...
On Not Off: Giant Light Switch Mural is Brilliantly Literal
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 ...
Orwellian Birthday: Party Hats Put on Public CCTV Cameras
To celebrate the 110th birthday of deceased British author George Orwell, famous for his dystopian visions of the future, Front404 roamed the streets of Utrecht adding colorful celebratory hats ...
Tiny Row House Installation Restores Missing Addresses
Taking a stroll along Westerstraat in Amsterdam, you might notice that an entire clump of houses seems to have disappeared. The addresses jump from 54 to 70, with nothing but a four-inch crack ...
Street Mural Turns Into an Animation as People Drive By
Remember making hand-held flipbooks when you were a kid? Those cute little books that made primitive cartoons when you flipped through the pages quickly could amuse and entertain for hours. ...
Unauthorized Installations: The Fine Art of Urban Subversion
Brad Downey is familiar with both sides of the art world, with a fine arts degree and gallery exhibitions, on the one hand, and run-ins with the authorities about his sometimes-unsanctioned ...
