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Street Art Goes Orbital: Shepard Fairey Lights Up the Sphere in Vegas. What a Ball!

Street Art Goes Orbital: Shepard Fairey Lights Up the Sphere in Vegas. What a Ball!

In Memoriam: Don’t Fret

In Memoriam: Don’t Fret

BSA Images Of The Week: 04.20.25

BSA Images Of The Week: 04.20.25

Layers of Legacy: POSE Brings Graffiti Roots to a Carousel in Schrager’s Garden

Layers of Legacy: POSE Brings Graffiti Roots to a Carousel in Schrager’s Garden

Words Like Weapons: Jenny Holzer in the Streets and the Museum, In “Protest”

Words Like Weapons: Jenny Holzer in the Streets and the Museum, In “Protest”

Street Art Goes Orbital: Shepard Fairey Lights Up the Sphere in Vegas. What a Ball!

April 24, 2025

In Memoriam: Don’t Fret

April 22, 2025

BSA Images Of The Week: 04.20.25

April 20, 2025

Layers of Legacy: POSE Brings Graffiti Roots to a Carousel in Schrager’s Garden

April 18, 2025

Words Like Weapons: Jenny Holzer in the Streets and the Museum, In “Protest”

April 17, 2025

Hi-Vis at 10: Buffalo AKG’s Public Art Program Moves Indoors

April 15, 2025

BSA Images Of The Week: 04.13.25

April 13, 2025

Bicicleta Sem Freio: Rooted in Music, Drawing the Sound

April 10, 2025

Barry McGee & Margaret Kilgallen In “Place”

April 8, 2025

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IN MEMORIAM: DON’T FRET With heavy hearts, we sa

IN MEMORIAM: DON’T FRET With heavy hearts, we say goodbye to the brilliant Don’t Fret.

Cooper, the Chicago street artist known as “Don’t Fret,” was born and raised in the Wicker Park neighborhood—a community that shaped his perspective and featured prominently in his work. A few days ago he passed away at the age of 36 after a long illness, as confirmed by his family. Deeply connected to Chicago’s working-class spirit and changing urban landscape, Cooper created street art that reflected a genuine affection for the people, culture, history, and places around him. @dontfretart @bedstuyartres #streetart

BSA IMAGES OF THE WEEK: 04.20.25 We continue with

BSA IMAGES OF THE WEEK: 04.20.25 We continue with our interviews with the street, this week including Citty Kitty, Homesick, JerkFace, Eternal Possessions, Chupa, Android Oi, Staino, Masnah, Jaek El Diablo, Jay Diggz, Washington Walls, BC NBA, Busy, and Pytho. @bc_nba @washingtonwalls @underhillwalls @incarceratedjerkfaces @android_oi @citykittystreet @jaekeldiablo @jay__diggz @masnah.eth #homesick @magicforeverlives @eternalpossessions #jaimerojo #streetart #graffiti #urbanart #muralart

LAYERS OF LEGACY: POSE BRINGS GRAFFITI ROOTS TO A

LAYERS OF LEGACY: POSE BRINGS GRAFFITI ROOTS TO A CAROUSEL IN SCHRAGER’S GARDEN Jordan Nickel, better known as POSE, is a Chicago-born graffiti artist whose work fuses street culture, pop art, and comic book aesthetics into a bold, layered style. With a bright palette and complex collage style, he often hides messages and abstract forms that reward a closer look. A standout example is his 85-foot mural he painted last summer beneath the Purple Line in Evanston, Illinois—a city just north of Chicago—a pop kaleidoscope of memories and associations with his youth there. @tenderj @rogergastman @publichotels #graffiti

BSA IMAGES OF THE WEEK: 04.13.25 We continue with

BSA IMAGES OF THE WEEK: 04.13.25 We continue with our interviews with the street, this week including CRKSHNK, Modomatic, Michael Alan, Alex Itin, Words on the Street, Mini Mantis, The Splasher (2?), AS+ORO, Baz Bon, Winnie Chiu, and Priz. @mini_mantis @modomatic #PRIZ @wordonthestreet @itinplace @wordsonthestreet_ @crkshnk @winniechiuart @baz_bon @michaelalanalien #jaimerojo #bsaimagesoftheweek #streetart #graffiti #urbanart #muralart

BSA IMAGES OF THE WEEK: 04.07.25 We continue with

BSA IMAGES OF THE WEEK: 04.07.25 We continue with our interviews with the street, this week including stuff from Homesick, Kobra, Humble, Sluto, Wild West, V. Ballentine, Bleach, Toast, CAMI XVX, Vew, Tover, Dreps, Leaf!, Aneka, Kam S. Art, and John Sear. @jsear7 @camixvx @humblemakesart @kobrastreetart @vballentine99 #TOAST #TOVER #LEAF! #HOMESICK #WILDWEST #ANEKA #SLUTO @drepstah #BLEACH! @kam.s.art @underhillwalls @washingtonwalls @magicforeverlives #jaimerojo #bsaimagesoftheweek #streetart #graffiti #muralart #urbanart

IMAGES OF THE WEEK: 03.30.25 We continue with our

IMAGES OF THE WEEK: 03.30.25 We continue with our interviews with the street, this week including Faile, John Ahearn, CRKSHNK, Modomatic, Qzar, EXR, Ollin, Sto, REW X, Want Pear, Batola, Ooh Baby, Thug Life, and Jayo. @faileart @_exrnow @crkshnk @jahearnart @qzarism @ollin_crew___ #pear #batola @parlayer_ns #gus #rew @modomatic #xxx #thuglife @jayo_v #jaimerojo #graffiti #streetart #muralart #urbanart

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BSA at Subliminal Projects with Shepard Fairey, Chaz Bohrquez, Layer Cake for Urban Nation (LINK)

BSA at Museum of Graffiti with Alan Ket and Layer Cake for Urban Nation (LINK)

via Urban Nation Museum
The most extensive career survey ever exhibited, “Martha Cooper: Taking Pictures” is curated by Steven P. Harrington & Jaime Rojo
Q:You were already working as curators for URBAN NATION before this exhibition. How does the curation of the projects at that time differ from the new exhibition?
A: We were on the curatorial board of the museum since 2015 when we brought 12 artists from Brooklyn to Berlin for our cultural exchange exhibition …

via Justin Kamp @Artsy
“Scholars of the category expressed similar views. Jaime Rojo and Steven P. Harrington, co-founders of the online street art community Brooklyn Street Art, stated that while graffiti art should be generally viewed as a distinct category due to its focus on lettering and authorial expression, the bounds of street art are more aesthetically slippery. “It may borrow heavily from advertising, branding, traditional mural making, and pop culture aesthetics or methods of creation and dissemination,”…

Jeffrey Deitch

"Brooklyn Street Art is not only one of the best informed sites about street art it is also one of the best about any kind of art."

Artist, Writer, Curator, Dealer, and Advisor
Director Deitch Projects, Art in the Streets at MOCA LA

Raphael Schacter A

The thing about BSA is that they cover the whole spectrum. Images of both emerging artists highly visible on the street to the work of some of the most established “street” artists with burgeoning museum careers."

Rafael Schacter

Anthropologist, Curator, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

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Selina Miles

"I particularly appreciate the integrity and quality of their writing and photography, a characteristic not often seen in today’s culture of throwaway media. They are true journalists of the highest quality."

Filmmaker, Director of the documentary "Martha: A Picture Story" and Sofles' "Limitless"

Shepard Fairey

"BSA is not a street art blog. It is the most diverse and in-depth site covering the street, or “urban” art movement and all of its eclectic mutations."

Street Artist, Graphic Designer, Activist, Founder of OBEY

Carlo Mccormick

"It is a bit of mischief that something with so provincial a title as Brooklyn Street Art
could in fact have such a broad scope and global mandate."

Carlo Mccormick

Art and Culture Critic, Curator, Lecturer, Author

Carlo Mccormick

a How Nosm

"The Graffiti movement and the Street Art world don’t always agree with each other but BSA treats everybody with respect and goes to the heart of the matter."

Raoul and Davide Perre aka How Nosm

Artists, Graffiti Writers, Muralists

Evan Pricco

“There are a lot of blogs, magazines, social media accounts that cover Street Art and Graffiti. Some have come and gone. But none have given the care, the attention and devoted coverage like Brooklyn Street Art.”

Editor-In-Chief, Juxtapoz

Sharon Matt Atkins

"Brooklyn Street Art is my go-to resource for keeping current on art of the streets. They champion the artists first and foremost; and their respect and admiration for creative expression is apparent in all that they do. "

Sharon Matt Atkins

Director of Curatorial Affairs, Brooklyn Museum

Sharon Matt Atkins

Martha Cooper

"A couple of great guys who have been working tirelessly to promote and support urban art worldwide through their website and other social media platforms.

If you want a fresh and original perspective of what’s happening with art on the streets of Brooklyn and beyond, follow them!"

Photographer, Ethnologist, Documentarian
Author "Subway Art" with Henry Chalfant

John Fekner

"BSA reflects the spontaneity, the concern, and the exhilarating celebration of artistic beauty;
the stuff that ‘street’ dreams are made of."

Environmental, Conceptual, and Activist Urban Artist

Jim Prigoff

"Two very dedicated, knowledgeable, devoted people with enormous energy, tracking the art around the world. Outstanding and dogged tracking of the NY area and coverage of jams in cities all over the planet."

Photographer, Lecturer, Author of "Spray Can Art" with Henry Chalfant

Jayson Edlin

"Jaime Rojo’s pretty, often gritty photos combined with Steve Harrington’s pro prose beautifully document what would otherwise be the most ephemeral of art forms."

Graffiti Writer, Historian, Author "Graffiti 365"

Geoff Hargadon

"I've been a BSA fan since the beginning, and its content remains my most valuable resource for tracking the evolving global street art movement. An exceptionally comprehensive love letter to the genre, I'm grateful they have somehow been able to keep it authentic, pure, and personal."

Street Artist, Photographer, Collector, Cultural Observer

Christian Guémy aka C215

"They are in love with art, watch artists with love, speak about them with love. They spread their love...welcoming the best Street Artists worldwide."

Christian Guémy aka C215

French Street Artist, Graffiti Artist

Christian Guémy aka C215

Jonathan Levine

"Their exclusive photographs and stories have elevated the status of graffiti, murals and public art. Jaime and Steven have a strong and passionate editorial voice, making them two of the most influential and knowledgeable journalists in the field."

Jonathan Levine

Independent Curator, Gallerist, Jonathan Levine Projects

Jonathan Levine

Martyn Reed

"They’re one of the few Street Art related sites and organisations unafraid to take a critical look at the culture they’re engaged in, as well as promoting the very best the culture has to offer."

Gallerist, Curator, Founder, Nuart Festival in Stavanger, Norway

Christian Omodeo

"I did not get how street art had become a global culture for real, until stumbling upon BSA many years ago. I still do not understand how they manage such a network, but I definitely like the results."

Christian Omodeo

Institut national du Patrimoine, Le Grand Jeu

Christian Omodeo

Caledonia Curry, aka Swoon

"Jaime and Steve put so much heart and soul into everything they do - and everything they do keeps the fire going for the wild visions of creatives around the world."

Caledonia Curry, aka Swoon

Artist, Humanitarian, Founder "The Heliotrope Foundation"

Caledonia Curry, aka Swoon

Susan Hansen

"They are democratic in their documentation, reporting on the monumental work of the stars of the movement, while drawing our attention to the smaller scale urban interventions that are part of the very fabric of our cities."

Scholar, Middlesex University, London. Art on The Streets, ICA London.

Alison Young

"Every time I visit it, I learn something new, discover artists I hadn’t heard of, and get excited about what’s happening in the galleries, on the screen, and in the streets."

University of Melbourne
Author of "Street Art World" (2016) and "Street Art, Public City" (2014)

Pedro Soares Neves

"A criteria-based content platform,
BSA is two great peoples’ work, love and devotion."

Pedro Soares Neves

Executive Director at Urbancreativity.org

Pedro Soares Neves

Yasha Young

"It is the unique and multifaceted approach to each article that makes the work so important and a leading source of knowledge when it comes to the vast variety of movements and developments within and surrounding the urban contemporary scene."

Director, Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art (UN), Berlin

“Martha Cooper: Taking Pictures” : BSA Curates Career Retrospective in Berlin

Martha and BSA Open New Martha Cooper Library at UN

Harrington and Rojo (BSA) curate “Persons of Interest” for Urban Nation in Berlin with Dain, Gaia, Don Rimx, Swoon, Specter, Esteban Del Valle, Chris Stain, NohJColey, Cake, El Sol 25, Icy & Sot, Onur Dinc, KKade, Nevercrew, Dot Dot Dot, Andreas Englund.

Flashback to the 2000s with an early BSA exhibition in Brooklyn, “Street Crush” with 42 street artists, burlesque performers, and a kissing booth.

Artist Spotlight

Selections of FAILE on BSA, with BSA

And the same Faile stencil on the street (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

And the same Faile stencil on the street (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Icy & Sot

All photos © Jaime Rojo