Street artist, cartoonist and comic book creator Phlegm is known for his signature illustrative black-and-white style, which he has translated from the page to large-scale murals in run-down ...
Trompe L'oeil, french for "deceive the eye," is the art of creating two dimensional images with such realism that they appear to be in three dimensions. A trick often used in the backdrop of ...
Far removed from the small-time taggers that can't resist any unmarked urban surface, muralists and street artists bring gallery-worthy art to the streets where they can be enjoyed by all. ...
“Is Banksy's Mr. Brainwash the Borat of the art world?” asked NYMag.com in April after the latter made his debut at Sundance as subject of Banksy's film, Exit Through the Gift Shop. That ...
A genderless figure in head-to-toe crochet camouflage lounges on a crochet-covered chair atop a crochet rug, surrounded by crochet wall hangings that say things like “Wake up and play with ...
Urban environments are crowded with all kinds of sights that are so common they often just seem to fade into the background. Signs, buildings, cars, the odd package waiting on a doorstep - they ...
It's no surprise that Brazil's favelas, or slums, can be bleak places to live. In one neighborhood, a sign on a wall ridden with bullet holes reads, 'Attention neighbors. In days of war, avoid ...
It's “an elusive pirate treasure of contemporary art” - an abandoned subway chamber under Manhattan that was illegally opened for a year starting in 2009 to allow 103 select artists to paint ...
Halloween is one of the big seasonal favorites, but the love for the creepy and scary doesn't fade as the year wears on. Street artists inspired by one of the kookiest holidays like to ...
Against the stark, pale background of Post-Soviet Ukraine, the vivid colors and fanciful images painted on brick, plaster, stone and wood are as jarring as they are cheerful, an unexpected jolt ...
