Larger than Life: 10 Giant Portraits, Murals & Sculptures
Portrait artists all have their own ideas about what makes for a great portrait: something that glorifies the subject, something that shows it in harsh realistic detail, or something that ...
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Hyper-Realistic Wall Paintings: David Jon Kassan Portraits
If you were to round a corner in a building you thought empty and come face-to-face with one of these figures, you might experience a moment of heart-thumping fear before realizing that there’s ...
Sketch in the City: Drawing Every Person in New York
As of 2008, New York City was estimated to have a population of around 8.3 million people. It happens to be the most populous city in the entire United States. So just how long would it take to ...
Big Screens, Big Fun: 2 Simply Silly Public Art Projects
Once we move from childhood to adulthood, playfulness seems to take a back seat to responsibility. Many of us lose that sense of wonder and fun that makes all of our daily activities seem ...
Advertising Misinformation: How to Fake a Business District
When a city's economy begins to fail, those in charge have some choices to make. Should they pump money into local businesses? Should they let the public see just how bad it's getting? One town ...
Urban Theater of the Absurd: Bizarre Public Performance Art
All it takes is a crawling woman in a hairy suit, a bunch of jumping men with televisions on their heads or a guy projecting his private parts onto public buildings to turn urban settings into ...
Nine Eyes: A Human Perspective on Google Street View
Google's Street View has made it easier for us to find our destinations, but has it influenced us in other ways as well? When Google sent out a fleet of automobiles armed with GPS units, laser ...
Cellophane City? Plastic Arts Change Urban Landscape
When negative comments are made about public art, they usually revolve around the art being unattractive, too permanent, or a waste of city funds (either for commissioning a sanctioned piece or ...
Fantastic to Freaky: 40 Graffiti Merry Christmas Greetings
Graffiti decorates walls, subways and trains all over our globe. Since the first tags appeared in the 1970s, graffiti has grown in popularity until now it can be a commercialized venture. ...
Trick of the Eye: 13 Delightfully Deceptive Works of Art
Hyper-realistic paintings and drawings can make us pause and wonder whether they're real, but there's another, even more deceptive, form of super-realistic art that's been in use since ancient ...
