As New Yorkers (and the world) discuss whether Trump will self-combust, start a war, take control as a dictator, be revealed as a Russian operative, or be impeached, some things are for sure – every day the reputation of the US is sustaining damage among friends and allies, billionaires are grinning like Cheshire Cats and US citizens are feeling insecure as hell.
In New York, his “hometown”, we found this article from the Bronx Weekly to be full of informative responses from every day neighbors like the ones you see on the street and in the subway, at the laundromat, in the grocery store. Protests against him and his policies keep happening and more are planned; According to this piece in AM New York we’ve already had demonstrations this year outside Trump Tower, Trump International Hotel and Tower, at the Stonewall National Monument, Battery Park, Tompkins Square Park, Washington Square Park, Times Square and outside Kennedy Airport. And of course, we had Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer riding his podium through Midtown on Friday morning.
With this as a backdrop, its amazing that more Street Art isn’t overtly political. But what most of us are worried about these days isn’t specifically political – its our lives. And the street always has its way of reflecting us back to ourselves.
Here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring: Aito Katazaki, City Kitty, Crash, Crime Scene, drsc0, Extinct Species, Felix Semper, GM.145, Himbad, Megzany, Pink Power, Raf Urban, SacSix, Stikman, and Xors.
Top image: Himbad for East Village Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Pink Power for East Village Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Crash for Coney Art Walls 2017. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
GM . 145 Extinct Species. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
GM . 145 Extinct Species. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
City Kitty (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Crime Scene (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Megzany (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Japanese Street Artist Aito Kitazaki for East Village Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Felix Semper (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Raf Urban (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Abe and SacSix keeping it real for East Village Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
drsc0 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Xors for East Village Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Stikman (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Manhattan, NYC, May 2107. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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