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Street art has been fully mainstream since 2011, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for new works and styles. Street art incorporates its surroundings and is built into free spaces around the city, fully embracing the "outside of the museum" approach that sometimes gets its artists in to trouble with the law. Perhaps this aspect of street art makes it harder to pull off than painting on a canvas. Regardless, enjoy In These Streets: Top Street Art From July 2013, and if you’re ever in close proximity to one of these pieces by today’s dopest street artists, make sure you don’t just pass them by.
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Gaia
Location: Rochester and Richmond, VA and Baltimore, MA
Gaia paints murals all over the world, and lately he's been busy painting on the East Coast of the US, bringing local controversies to light.
DALeast
Location: Rochester, NY
Chinese artist DALeast painted this massive 6 x 30-meter piece for the Wall Therapy Festival. It fits well with his bold three-dimensional style.
Aryz
Location: Oslo, Norway
This year's Oslo Triennial of Mural Art had this young Spanish artist creating a mural of a skeletal man with a young girl on his lap.
Hanksy
Location: New York
Hanksy celebrated Independence Day with this hilarious series of bald eagles.
Escif
Location: Horsens, Denmark
Recently and unexpectedly, the city of Horsens in Denmark has been a hub of street art, certainly thanks to their Public Art project. The first piece is called How to Survive Horsens and hilariously shows self defensee tactics. The second is called Baruck Pizza and is a disorienting, comically-painted storefront. The third piece is untitled and has a man on a horse saying "What the hell!"
JR
Location: Atlanta
This year's annual street festival, Living Walls 2013, takes place in Atlanta starting next week. JR commemorates the victories of the American Civil Rights Movement for these pieces. The first is in honor of the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
ETAM Cru
Location: Richmond, VA
Polish artists Sainer and Beztm make up Etam Cru, and they are known for their use of vibrant colors and unique scenery. They definitely live up to their rep with this girl sitting in a strawberry jar.
ND'A
Location: New York
This work is by Brooklyn-based artist ND'A for The LISA Project, an NYC street art initiative. The piece gets pretty fancy with a dog, a cherry, and pearls, all done in gold.
Seikon
Location: Gdynia, Poland
We could easily see Seikon's new mural in Gdynia, Poland at a modern art museum, which is what makes his work so exciting. We are definitely getting some Frank Stella vibes.
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Case and Wow123
Location: Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia
Case's photo-realistic spray can graffiti intertwined with Wow123's traditional graffiti tag covers a 10-storey building in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia to create a visually stunning image in an otherwise dreary neighborhood.
Phlegm
Location: Vodnjan, Croatia
Phlegm tricks the eye with his op-art mural on an abandoned cinema. In fact, he used pens and markers to complete the piece, painting for approximately 10 hours each for five days under extreme heat.
ROA
Location: Vienna, Austria
It's hard not to be impressed by ROA's gigantic rodents that he has left on the walls of Vienna, the new mecca for street art, for his first show "PAN-ROA's Box."
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Brad Downey
Location: Denmark
Brad Downey does not draw on any surfaces like most street artists. Instead, he creates street art by playing with the various components that make up public space.
FAILE
Location: Vienna, Austria
Cash, Cans, Candy was serving up the best street art this month in Vienna, allowing artists like FAILE to show off their talent in an immense display space.
Shepard Fairey
Location: Vienna, Austria
Possibly the most popular man in street art today, Shepard Fairey displayed his grand-scale mural skills at the Cash, Cans, Candy festival that celebrates street art from around the world.
