Pavement Bowie: 20 Street Art Tributes to David Bowie
Ashes to ashes, Stardust to dust: having left life's stage, cultural icon David Bowie also leaves behind a global imprint through street art and graffiti. ...
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Urban Rainbows: 14 Colorful Art Installations in the City
Nighttime rainbows shimmer across the skies in cities from Istanbul to New York, traversing rivers, illuminating underpasses and highlighting monuments. Bringing splashes of ultra-saturated color ...
Blooming Street Lights: Giant Flowers Interact with the City
Step beneath these massive red flowers in Jerusalem’s Vallero Square and they’ll bloom before your eyes, offering light after dark and shelter from the rain. The interactive installation by ...
Abandoned Ship: Artist Paints Figure Onto Floating Ruins
Hawaiian artist HULA paints the head and arm of a floating woman onto the rusted steel surface of an abandoned ship, all while balancing on a surfboard. The woman’s face appears and disappears ...
Rooftop View: World’s Largest Mural Takes Up Entire Building
Spanning the massive multi-building rooftop of a construction company, this black-and-white mural of a lounging girl might just be the largest ever painted. Commissioned by French duo Ella & ...
Painted Praise: Street Art Honors Asia with Iconic Imagery
Spanish street artist Pejac both praises and criticizes elements of various Asian cultures in a new series of outdoor paintings making use of iconic traditional imagery and symbols. Human figures ...
Balancing Act: Artist Paints Seaside Murals from a Surfboard
Painting a hyper-realistic mural outdoors is challenging enough on its own, and artist Sean Yoro not only pulls off incredible portraits, he does it all while balancing on his surfboard. Known as ...
Street Art Lives: 13 Installations that Interact with Nature
In cities where greenery can be scarce, these art installations call attention to everything from wall-climbing ivy to weeds growing out of sidewalk cracks, turning bushes into luscious manes or ...
Playing with Perspective in Paris: New Optical Illusion Art
Two-dimensional shapes seem to hover weightlessly in space like a projection, but step slightly to your right or left and the whole image falls apart, becoming a chaotic assemblage of lines ...
Scaffolding Skyscraper: Very Public Urban Artist-in-Residence
The scaffolding used by a street artist to complete large murals becomes a tiny, less-than-private home away from home in a literal sense with ’24/7,’ an installation at the Memorie Urbane ...
