Although his pieces have many of the trappings of street art—monumental scale, wheatpaste adhesive, a populist message—the French artist JR sees his work as “more like a sociological ...

JR with a new composite artwork, “The Chronicles of New York City,” at the Brooklyn Museum. He is often categorized as a street artist, but he said his abiding interest is people, and ...

Photographs of all 15 street art pieces by French artist JR for Walking New York across the 5 boroughs of NYC, for the New York Times Magazine issue April 2015. Menu Search. Log in Subscribe.

JR is a French artist who exhibits his work in what he describes as "the biggest art gallery in the world", the urban landscape. Credit: jr-art.net This week he was awarded £63,450 by Technology ...

JR-ART.net Ballet; The Eye of New York City Ballet, trompe l’oeil photograph of eighty-one dancers from the New York City Ballet interacting with paper, 2014. JR-ART.net Elmar, Flatiron Plaza ...

JR took this photograph as part of the project Portrait of a Generation, photographing the residents of Les Bosquets.At 21 years old, JR was already an experienced street artist – he had been ...

JR remains “very close to the [street] scene,” Perrotin says, though has earned himself some starry friends along the way. These include Robert De Niro, with whom JR recently made a film.

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When French street artist JR launched a 1,200-foot container ship this summer bearing an enormous photograph, he never imagined that the crew would end up saving refugees at sea.

JR took this photograph as part of the project Portrait of a Generation, photographing the residents of Les Bosquets.At 21 years old, JR was already an experienced street artist – he had been ...