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 ...

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.

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 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 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 ...

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-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 often documents his art in this way; his work is partly about his process. “That’s good,” JR yelled, but the crew-member was not satisfied. “I’m going to find a better spot,” she ...

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 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 ...