BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY
This week’s edition of BSA Images Of The Week is heavy with messages, especially on the subject of refugee children and our responsibility to keep them safe. Family Values, as we once heard on a near daily basis here, are apparently not to be mentioned when applied to certain families according to the people pulling children away from immigrants – certain immigrants anyway.
New York streets had people marching yesterday about these families, and our top Street Art image by Ernest Zacharavic features little kids set afloat figuratively. As Mexico elects a new president today, the US Supreme Court looks rightward with Kennedy’s resignation last week. Meanwhile the country will celebrate “liberty and justice for all” this week – and the streets are thick with politics like we haven’t had in a while.
On a practical, art-making level, we have also noticed the prevalence of wheat-pasted posters on the streets this spring/summer. Whether mass-printed or labor-intensive one-off paintings, wheatpasting is a practice that has been a staple since we began documenting the arts on the streets worldwide. We are glad to see that the ‘paster, like the humble one-color stencil, hasn’t lost its appeal in the face of the current fascination with big murals.
Here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring Adage, AJ LaVilla, Baron Von Fancy, Boutros Buotros Bootleg, C3, Damon NYC, Drsc0, Ernest Zacharevic, Indie184, Jason Naylor, Jeff Henriquez, LMNOPI, Praxis, Simon (Xi An), REVOK, Tristan Eaton, Unapologetically Brown Series, and Voxx.
Top image: Ernest Zacharevic sets these kids afloat in Manhattan (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ernest Zacharevic (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ernest Zacharevic (photo © Jaime Rojo)
AJ Lavilla (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The Unapologetically Brown Series (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jason Naylor (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Indie184 for 212Arts. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
LMNOPI (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Adage (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Damon NYC for 212Arts. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jeff Henriquez (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Baron Von Fancy (photo © Jaime Rojo)
VOXX (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Boutros Buotros Bootleg (photo © Jaime Rojo)
REVOK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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Adage (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Simon (Xi An) somewhere in China. (photo © Simon)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The wheat pastes above and below remind us of the early works of Faile and Bast…on the streets of Williamsburg. It’s fun to see their influence on the streets today.
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
drsc0 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Praxis (photo © Jaime Rojo)
C3 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. An spectator taking in Tristan Eaton’s crafty work at the Houston/Bowery Wall. NYC. June 2018. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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