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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 ...

Ephemeral Figures Loom Large in Biodegradable Land Art by Saype

Most graffiti artists never get the chance to paint a human figure measuring a staggering 100,000 square feet, but most of them aren’t working directly on massive mountainsides, either. Swiss ...

Altered Realities: Abstract 3D Murals by Peeta Pop Off the Wall

A wall could look as flat as flat gets until street artist Peeta gets his hands on it with a can of spray paint, distorting its surface, confusing its perspective with three-dimensional ...

Visual Poetry: Street Artist Paints Site-Specific Traditional Lace Patterns

Delicate patterns of lace adorn the facades of buildings, magnified many times larger than life, echoing the particular motifs of the region’s traditions. The Polish street artist known as ...

Graffiti Artists Awarded $6.7M from Landlord Who Destroyed Their Work

Prior to 2013, a warehouse in Queens known as 5Pointz was a graffiti mecca packed with murals and other work by hundreds of artists, many of whom rented space inside the building. That is, until ...

Murals with a Message: 23 Works of Statement-Making Street Art

Banksy may be the most famous street artist addressing topics like capitalism, war, the refugee crisis and environmental degradation, but he's far from the only one. These political works by a ...

The City is a Canvas: 31 Murals Transforming Urban Spaces

Psychedelic portals beckon you to enter another dimension, sea monsters lurk at the bottom of the stairs and illustrated figures playfully interact with urban infrastructure in works of art that ...

Attack of the Giant Spider! Watch This Optical Illusion Mural Come to Life

A nightmarishly oversized spider emerges from a gaping hole in a wall in this anamorphic optical illusion mural by French street artist Denys Pasco, better known as Densoner. Known for his highly ...

Gold Medal Street Art: World Record Mural in Rio Stretches 600 Feet

Athletes aren’t the only people trying to set world records in Rio de Janeiro right now, and one artist might have nabbed the gold this week for the world’s largest mural created by a single ...

Peruse Your Illusions: 21 Mind-Bending Urban Works of Art

Optical illusion art brings a bit of magic to the streets, using paint, paste-ups or photographic tiles to transform urban surfaces into massive sinkholes, bizarre portals and mysterious doors ...

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