Welcome to BSA Images of the Week, our first of the year. We started 2026 with a Wolf Moon, which seems appropriate for some reason.

Maybe it was the U.S. military’s capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro (now in Brooklyn), civilians killed in Gaza and Ukraine by ongoing military campaigns, U.S. civilians shot by police and federal immigration agents, China’s live-fire drills encircling Taiwan, North Korea’s missiles launched as South Korea’s president traveled to China, and a U.S. president arguing that only his “own morality” limits his power while floating his idea for the U.S. to take control of Greenland.

What did Allen Ginsberg say?

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness…

Howl!

This week’s BSA images pull together some of the stronger graffiti writers we’ve seen lately, cutting across the range of lettering styles, holding weight on the street right now. From hard-earned handstyles and burners to sharper, more graphic approaches, they sit next to illustrators and pop-culture–driven characters that know how to travel beyond the sketchbook. Sharpened and smart, this work made for public space, shaped by repetition, risk, and a clear sense of visual authority.

So here is our interview with the street, this week including Atomiko, Dirt Cobain, DJJS1, Elena Rose, Jamie Hef, Jest, Keds, Klonism, Mena Ceresa, Meres One, MUL, PHYBER, Queen Andrea, Skewville, Souls NYC, TOPAZFTR, and Zulimar Mendoza.