This week Banksy shredded his piece at Sotheby’s and Kavanaugh was approved to shred your future. Dang, a lot of people got seriously punked bro.
Other than that we have to say to New York, we love you because of your fabulous diversity – and the fact that you prove every day that we can all get along really well even though we are all kinds of cultures and languages and backgrounds.
If only those (primarily) old white men who are legislating from Washington and from corporate board rooms could see and appreciate the richness that we have here in New York – they might realize that they have been completely and utterly foolish and blind to their own people, which is all of us.
It feels like this swing to the right is not about ideology but about protecting power and wealth – and we’re witnessing the dying Old Boy network kicking and screaming to protect the system that has served them best. How else can you explain the contingency that once called themselves the moral majority today exhibit almost zero morality – being brutal, haughty, and defiantly cynical – and still getting support?
On a happier note, how about those Yankees M-I-RIGHT ?
So here is our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring Cash4, City Kitty, d.w. krsna, Dede, Izzrad, Kobra, Mark DiSuvero, Mer, Mr. Toll Troll, Mr. Tongue, Nitzan Mintz, Nobs, Onis, Pleks, Pork, Sickid, Stray Ones, and Subway Doodle.
Top Image: PLEKS. Where is it? (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mr Toll Troll (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Stray Ones (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Subway Doodle for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sickid (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Cash4 . Pork (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Poem 2 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dede . Nitzan Mintz (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Poem 3 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Poem 5 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mr. Tongue (photo © Jaime Rojo)
City Kitty (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Be Cool Dont Trip (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Be Cool Dont Trip (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Not Invader (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Kobra (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Kobra (photo © Jaime Rojo)
D. W. Krsna (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mark DiSuvero with Onis, Nobs and Mer (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Izzrad (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Izzrad (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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