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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.

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 ...

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 ...

Pothole Pests: Street Artist Repairs NYC Road Damage with Mosaic Vermin

New York City’s most loathed and celebrated vermin are preserved for posterity in a series of new pothole mosaics by artist Jim Bachor. Inspired by the legendary grit of the city and the ...

Snug Streets: Painted Pavement & Paver Rugs Animate Boring City Surfaces

Painted patterns turn ordinary sidewalks and other urban surfaces into geometric artworks, creating a level of creative interaction as well as domestic intimacy in public spaces. European ...

Hands to the Wall: Chile Unveils Tactile Street Art for the Visually Impaired

In Santiago, Chile, six murals offer visually impaired people the chance to experience large-scale works of street art by Chilean artists through touch panels, braille and audio descriptions. ...

Guerrilla Artist Pulls a Banksy, Installs Own Art at Banksy Museum Exhibit

In the early 2000s, Banksy famously hung one of his own works at London's famous Tate Britain museum, and now, 15 years later, a Toronto artist has pulled off a similar guerrilla trick, this time ...

Found Art: Huge Exterior Wall Mural Uncovered in Dutch Museum Renovation

Originally painted in 1968 on the side of an Amsterdam museum building, this Keith Haring mural was covered in a subsequent renovation before recently being revealed once again to the ...

Purse Spective: Thrashbird’s Valley Of Secret Values

Street artist Thrashbird has gone off the beaten track to transform huge stone blocks at an abandoned concrete factory into enormous designer handbags. Like Banksy, LA-based Thrashbird ...

Between the Lines: 3D Graffiti Artist Layers Letters to Form Punchy Phrases

Warping classical fonts into rich mural art, Peter Preffington (or: Pref) uses three-dimensional complexity to draw the eye to deceptively simple messages. A veteran street artist, ...

Prismatic Pride: 20+ Rainbow-Centric Murals & Street Art Installations

The world gets a whole lot brighter with the addition of vivid murals incorporating every color of the rainbow, splashed all over public surfaces like apartment buildings, walls, staircases and ...

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