Tag: street art
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Street Art Sculptor “Unzips” a Building in Milan for Mind-Bending Art Installation
Street artist and sculptor Alex Chinneck has brought his mind-bending illusions to Italy with an incredible installation in Milan. Running alongside Milan Design Week, Chinneck has literally unzipped the front of a building in the city in what he calls the most ambitious work he’s ever made. In addition to the incredible exterior, the building’s…
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Taking The Piss: Banksy Takes A Leak And Turns An Old Wheel Clamp Into Thousands Of Dollars $$$
Sometimes you need to be in the right place at the right time. Other times, your catering trailer needs to be parked in the right place at the right time. That was the case for a guy who worked at Owen’s Catering during the Glastonbury Festival back in 2002. As the story goes, Owen’s Catering…
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Dutch Artists Paint Giant Bookcase On An Apartment Building Featuring Residents’ Favorite Books
While many street artists choose abandoned buildings and old train tracks as the canvases for their explosive masterpieces, Dutch street artist Jan Is De Man chooses to go another route – by realizing lively works for local communities who want to connect. His aim is to create projects ‘where everyone can identify themselves’ by asking…
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Trees Grow from Bricks and a Storefront on the Streets of New York by Pejac
Elusive Spanish artist Pejac travels the world creating street interventions, often integrating natural elements into man-made structures through a combination of stenciling and trompe l’oeil painting. His most recent projects have brought him to New York City for the first time, where he has created two arboreal artworks in Bushwick and Chinatown. Pejac formed Fossil,…
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Optical Illusion Added To The Louvre’s Pyramid Then Immediately Destroyed
Artist JR has created a giant 3D optical illusion from paper that imagines the iconic pyramid at the Musée du Louvre in Paris continuing underground, but it has already been destroyed. Named The Secret of the Great Pyramid, the trompe l’oeil was made from 2,000 stickers surrounding Pritzker Prize-winning architect IM Pei’s glass building, making…
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German Professor Who Is A Hardcore Star Wars Fan Has Just Repainted An Observatory Into R2-D2
In a galaxy far far away (Germany) Hubert Zitt, professor at the Zweibrücken University of Applied Sciences and known for Star Trek and Star Wars lectures, along with a small team, transformed the Zweibrück Observatory of the Natural Science Association into a giant R2-D2 – and it is out of this world. The sci-fi professor…
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Festival in Tokyo Celebrates the Art of Japanese Manhole Covers
Japan is a country with a unique history and culture, beautiful landscapes, great architecture, bullet trains, neon signs, vending machines and fascinating toilets… they even say that it’s the place where you can find absolutely anything you want. And while your head wonders around this incredible island, make sure you look down because you might…
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Artist Paints Beautiful Murals on Homes Destroyed by Californian Wildfires
An artist, moved by what was left behind of his friend's home after it was ravaged by the California wildfires last year, used the site as a canvas. Shane Grammer turned the charred remains of a fireplace at Shane Edwards' Paradise residence into a beautiful black-and-white mural of a woman. "When my buddy Shane posted…
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Mural is Intentionally Painted Upside Down to Reflect Right Side Up in the Water
NYC artist artist Ray Bartkus recently created a street art mural in the Lithuanian city of Marijampolė. In a spectacular twist, his mural has an optical illusion which uses the surface of the water as its true canvas. Bartkus intentionally painted it upside-down so that the swimmers, rowers and swans he depicted would be reflected…
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The Most Amazing Photographs Captured By Probably The Best Street Photographer In The World
You’ve heard the saying before “you need to be in the right place at the right time”? That’s the ongoing philosophy of Norway-based artist Pau Buscato, who always seems to be in the right place at the right time. His latest series is called ‘Hopscotch,’ and it aims to capture the world through a prism…