urban art news

A bookstore in Wuhan, China, has reopened after a two-year design and renovation project by Wutopia Lab that has seen a huge "light cone" inserted ... More

A floating art museum dedicated to urban art, including graffiti and street art, has docked on the River Seine in Paris at the foot of ... More

The town of Smithers, BC, Canada might be about to get an art gallery-cum-library if planning is approved by the state council. Architect Jennifer Marshall, ... More

To celebrate the start of the World Cup in Russia, sports giant Nike has partnered with KOSMOS Architects to create an outdoor football court in ... More

One of the team responsible for realising Ai Weiwei’s huge ‘security fence’ installations across New York has told CLADglobal the popularity of the project demonstrates ... More

A new museum celebrating the art of graffiti has opened its doors in Berlin, Germany. The Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art (UN Museum), ... More

Plans are at an advanced stage to create a new bourbon-themed leisure district in Lexington, Kentucky on the site of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail. Every ... More

David Rockwell has collaborated with seven famous street artists to create VANDAL; a recently launched street food restaurant in New York. Located on Bowery Street ... More

British architect David Adjaye is collaborating with an energy company, a team of top international artists and the City of Newark to create a 30ft ... More

US arts collective Section1 are transforming a vacant 3.5 acre site in the heart of Baltimore, Maryland into "the world’s largest urban art park." The ... More

Architecture studio EFFEKT have completed their transformation of an abandoned train depot in the Danish seaport Esbjerg into a new facility for street sport, skateboarding ... More

A crumbling 100-year old church in Llanera, northern Spain, has been transformed by local skateboarding enthusiasts and a hotly-tipped artist into a spectacular indoor skate ... More

Brazilian architect and designer Guto Requena has completed a new interactive light facade around the Hotel WZ Jardins in São Paulo. Award-winning architect Guto Requena, ... More

Rumours that urban artist Banksy is behind a pop-up visitor attraction in Weston-super-Mare, England, were given further credence today (20 August) as Dismaland’s website went ... More

Tres Tintas BCN has unveiled All City Papers, the latest in its series of innovative wallpaper collections. The collection, influenced by contemporary urban art, has ... More