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Anamorphic Street Art: New Abstract Murals by Peeta Pop Off the Wall

Blurring the lines between reality and illusion in street art is Peeta's specialty. You could stand right in front of one of his creations, gazing up at its proportions with your own eyes, and ...

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Street Artist Breathes Life Into Urban Facades

The streets of Brooklyn are a little brighter these days with the addition of two new pieces by Spanish street artist Pejac, including one that appears to be chiseled out of a brick facade. Both ...

Cellograffiti: Street Art Moves from Cities into the Woods on Plastic Wrap

Street art leaves the city and goes out into the woods in search of a new context without defacing nature thanks to a few massive rolls of clear engineering film. With Moscow-based artist Evgeny ...

A Toddler Peers Over the US-Mexico Border Fence for JR’s Latest Installation

Set on scaffolding just across the rust-red fence marking the border between Tecate, California and Mexico, street artist JR’s latest installation is a towering statement on immigration issues ...

Splitting Bricks: Architectural Art Installation Tears a London Building Apart

A London building appears to have fallen victim to an earthquake tremor or foundation collapse, with a jagged section of its brick facade split in half and threatening to collapse altogether. But ...

NYC Transformed: Graffiti Artist Turns Urban Objects into 3D Cartoons

No street grate, pipe, manhole cover, stack of barrels or concrete blob on the beach is too random and irregular to be transformed into a lighthearted cartoon. Street artist Tom Bob looks for the ...

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 ...

Walk on the Wild Side: 13 Crosswalk Illusions & Interventions

Optical illusions that seem to produce real 3D speed bumps on a flat street may enhance safety by encouraging drivers to slow down, but such colorful crosswalk paintings could soon become extinct ...

Chalk it Up to Illusion: Hyperrealistic 3D Sidewalk Murals

Polar bears, orcas, lions and puppies stick their heads out of holes in the pavement so convincingly, you feel like you could actually pet them. What was once no more than a dull expanse of concrete ...

Portrait of a City: 31 Photographic Urban Street Art Murals

Residents of cities like Tokyo, Havana and Los Angeles see their own faces blown up to monumental proportions and pasted onto all sorts of urban surfaces when photography, street art and ...

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