BSA Images of the Week: 12.08.24 / Miami X NYC
BSA Images of the Week: 12.08.24 / Miami X NYC
Books in the MCL: Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón. “Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora”
Books in the MCL: Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón. “Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora”
‘End of the Show’: Elisa Capdevila and a Living History Lesson
‘End of the Show’: Elisa Capdevila and a Living History Lesson
BSA Images Of The Week: 12.01.24
BSA Images Of The Week: 12.01.24
Books In The MCL: Tokyo Tattoo 1970. Martha Cooper
Books In The MCL: Tokyo Tattoo 1970. Martha Cooper
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BSA Images of the Week: 12.08.24 / Miami X NYC

Books in the MCL: Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón. “Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora”

‘End of the Show’: Elisa Capdevila and a Living History Lesson

BSA Images Of The Week: 12.01.24

Books In The MCL: Tokyo Tattoo 1970. Martha Cooper

Books In The MCL: The Self-Titled “NeSpoon”

BSA Images Of The Week: 11.24.24

“Above Ground” : How Martin Wong Preserved the Underground Soul of Graffiti

ELFO: Don’t Use This Wall!

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."
Jeffrey Deitch
Artist, Writer, Curator, Dealer, and Advisor
Director Deitch Projects, Art in the Streets at MOCA LA
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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."
Selina Miles
Filmmaker, Director of the documentary "Martha: A Picture Story" and Sofles' "Limitless"
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Selina Miles
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."
Shepard Fairey
Street Artist, Graphic Designer, Activist, Founder of OBEY
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Shepard Fairey
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
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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
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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.”
Evan Pricco
Editor-In-Chief, Juxtapoz
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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
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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!"
Martha Cooper
Photographer, Ethnologist, Documentarian
Author "Subway Art" with Henry Chalfant
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Martha Cooper
John Fekner
"BSA reflects the spontaneity, the concern, and the exhilarating celebration of artistic beauty;
the stuff that ‘street’ dreams are made of."
John Fekner
Environmental, Conceptual, and Activist Urban Artist
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John Fekner
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."
Jim Prigoff
Photographer, Lecturer, Author of "Spray Can Art" with Henry Chalfant
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Jim Prigoff
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."
Jayson Edlin
Graffiti Writer, Historian, Author "Graffiti 365"
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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."
Geoff Hargadon
Street Artist, Photographer, Collector, Cultural Observer
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Geoff Hargadon
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
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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
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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."
Martyn Reed
Gallerist, Curator, Founder, Nuart Festival in Stavanger, Norway
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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
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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"
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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."
Susan Hansen
Scholar, Middlesex University, London. Art on The Streets, ICA London.
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Susan Hansen
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."
Alison Young
University of Melbourne
Author of "Street Art World" (2016) and "Street Art, Public City" (2014)
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Alison Young
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
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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."
Yasha Young
Director, Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art (UN), Berlin
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“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)
Projekt Projektor in Dumbo, Brooklyn as part of Under the Bridge Festival September 2008 Image of Mary by Faile photo by Jaime Rojo for Brooklyn Street Art
Faile (Photo © Jaime Rojo)
Faile First Street Work 1999 (Photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sweet Tamed (Faile) (photo Jaime Rojo)
Jesus Seen on Manhattan Bridge! Faile (Photo Jaime Rojo)

Icy & Sot

All photos © Jaime Rojo