A lot of Street Art went up this week and a lot of serious crap went down on the national stage.
We’re seeing politically themed Street Art appearing up all over the city right now, and some of it is here in our round up – addressing myriad topics, all related to the administration that will take seat before the next Images of the Week. Sometimes it is defiant, other times despondent. Can’t speak to cities where Trump was overwhelmingly favored. Maybe there is Street Art in Kings County, Texas that is celebrating the end of healthcare, hooray! Certainly the new big wall along the border is going to need some murals and wheatpastes. We’ll see as soon as the wall pops up there next week.
Many in the more formalized “art world” are advocating a cultural boycott of the planned inauguration on Friday and Hyperallergic is compiling a Running List of New York Galleries and Nonprofits Closing on Friday.
The street scene of course is less organized, mainly because membership in the Street Art club is open to anyone and there are no gatekeepers or frosty gallery assistants to sneer, persuade or dissuade. The street never asked for permission to make (or not) and display (or not) art and other personal aesthetic missives, and it will continue to make its own rules no doubt.
So here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring Adam Fujita, Cost, Dain, Hater, JustOne, Kristen Liu Wong, Loomit, Myth, Stray Ones, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, and Tats Cru.
First image above: Tatiana Fazlalizadeh. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Stray Ones (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Kristen Liu-Wong for #artinadplaces (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Loomit for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Loomit. Detail. The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Loomit. Detail. The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Adam Fujita (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hater (photo © Jaime Rojo)
#NoFascistUSA (photo © Jaime Rojo)
#ArtistsforPoliticalSanity (photo © Jaime Rojo)
#ArtistsforPoliticalSanity (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Myth (photo © Jaime Rojo)
…we ALL are indeed! (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dain (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Tats Cru . Cost (photo © Jaime Rojo)
JustOne for The Bushwick Collective (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. LES. New York City. January 2017 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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