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NUART 2014 x BSA Update 3

September 3, 2014 Artists

On this third day at NUART we’d like to bring you a bit of the good humored craze that’s happening right now as some of the artists are finding their spots. We also wanted to give a sense of the existing Street Art scene flavor – with individual ad hoc pieces in hidden little spots along with some Nuart pieces still riding from previous years. The neighborhood is a quiet one (at least with New York ears), with cleanly rational homes built on steep angles going up hills of this former town of fishermen famous for their sardines and herring factories.

But you can feel the excitement rippling; Nuart and Numusic are concurrent festivals that bring a certain electricity and anticipatory activation to the streets here as summer turns to fall. Wandering on foot up and down hills with artists to see them preparing walls and having Thai takeout on a green picnic table or watching someone spraying their new stenciled piece in a window at Tou Scene, you will run into folks who have seen this activity before and would like to know the schedule of events.

The posters and banners are hung, the printed programs, postcard, the many stickers are all around town, artists are arriving, paint is allotted, and Kristal is ferrying guests swiftly in her car from one location to the next – offering history of the town, the festival, apple juice, and maybe piece of Norwegian chocolate if you like. Also Martin Whatson got stuck for an hour and a half fully extended up on a lift at the airport yesterday.

±MaisMenos± new word stencil at Tou Scene. Nuart 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

In this new piece ±MaisMenos± employs the double meaning that he typically uses in his communication on the street. A form of activism sometimes, but more accurately he considers it an initiation or continuance of a conversation on the street as well as his acknowledgement of the duality of most situations in life. In his new piece here ±MaisMenos± makes reference to the famous phrase from Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, where one longs for something. He offers hope, and at the same time he wonders about what are the resulting machinations in the act of offering hope – something not tangible

“I like people to have a double feeling about stuff. I do that a lot in my work. When there is a direct message you can always see another point of view. There are always two sides of a coin, another perspective,” says ±MaisMenos±, who will be giving a presentation on his work at the Activism Seminar Day Saturday for Nuart Plus.

Strøk has been invited back t0 Nuart 2014. This is an old piece from last year. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Icy & Sot. Nuart 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Icy & Sot working on their installation for Tou Scene. Nuart 2104. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Andreco working on his wall. Nuart 2104. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Dotmasters did a much larger version of this on a entire building side for a previous edition of Nuart. This one is a tiny hidden version with the bear about the size of a hand-span. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Volunteers leaving Nuart Studio and an old but hugely dramatic Dotmasters stencil from a previous edition of Nuart hangs on the right. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Missed Connections with Lionel Ritchie. Nuart 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Jamie Paul Scanlon, alias JPS. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

A poster advertising an upcoming event and a piece by Ernest Sacharevic from last year’s editon of Nuart. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Posters advertising Reed Projects, NUART and NUMUSIC events are all over this part of town. NUART 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

**A wall with a cluster of previous NUART alumni: C215, HUSH, Word To Mother and D*face. NUART 2014.** Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

A Dan Witz piece from a previous Nuart edition. NUART 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Artist Unknown. NUART 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Artist Hama Wood putting up a fresh stencil at Tou Scene. NUART 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Aakash Nihalani from a previous edition of Nuart. NUART 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Artist Unknown. NUART 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Team Borondo working on the installation for Tou Scene. NUART 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

This Is Not @rt. NUART 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Artist Unknown. NUART 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Click HERE for NUART 2014 full schedule of events and details.

NUART 2014 Begins with “Broken Promises”

ETAM CRU AND NUART 2014 X BSA

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ETAM CRU and NUART 2014 x BSA

September 2, 2014 Artists

Great shots here of Etam Cru at work for “First Day at School” a wall they completed for Nuart 2014 just before BSA arrived in Stavanger. The student appears to have already eaten his apple. Wasn’t that supposed to be for the teacher?

In this recasting of a tale, you may need to do some sleuthing by looking a the book in the chaps’ backpack.

Stay tuned for many new surprises this week at Nuart.

Etam Cru. Nuart 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © courtesy of Nuart)

Click HERE for NUART 2014 full schedule of events and details.

NUART 2014 Begins with “Broken Promises”

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NUART 2014 Begins with “Broken Promises”

September 1, 2014 Artists

For our 6th consecutive year of covering Nuart for you BSA is actually here in Stavanger this time. The plane touched down at 2 pm with Icy and Sot on board as well from Brooklyn and we all were whisked away by waiting cars. BSA got to ride in the schmancy new Nuart branded Tesla – that has a screen on the dashboard big enough to serve an entire pizza on – and get an amazing tour by street art photographer Tor of all the previous walls that are still riding in this Norwegian port town. – Stuff we’ve posted for ya’ll but have never seen in person by ROA, C215, Nick Walker, Dot Dot Dot, Swoon, Dan Witz, Evol, DALeast, Vhils and more!

And of course the large phallic M-City out the plane window at the airport – can’t forget that.

NUART 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

The freshest new addition on the Nuart first tour came from veteran Street Artist and socio-political commentator John Fekner, who has reprised one of his famous text based “Word-Signs” from the bad old days of 1970s New York urban neglect. It was a shock to see this iconic placard on a Stavanger wall and a cool way to make the New York – Nuart connection.

John Fekner. NUART 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Mr. Fekner is on the official artist roster for this years’ festival, but you can count on seeing him at Nuart Plus along with special speakers including yours truly. Some interesting conversations and exchanging of information and opinion will buttress the brand new works outside by the guests artists, with presentations, discussion, film screenings, and plenty of herring. Just checking to see if you were still reading.

Nuart wheels when you need them. NUART 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

John Fekner Broken Promises Falsas Promesas South Bronx NY 1980

Click HERE for NUART 2014 full schedule of events and details.

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BSA Images Of The Week: 08.31.14

August 31, 2014 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

A powerful group of images this week as we do a drive by on Labor Day Weekend in New York. We know it’s the last weekend of Summer but hell no! I’m gonna have another strawberry ice cream out on the stoop.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Alma’s, Anthony Lemer, Arnaud Montagard, Alice Pasquini, Bast, BLY, Cesar Mieses DALeast, Dek, Jerk Face, Paul Insect, Pete Kirill, Ryan McGinness, Sean9Lugo, Seymour Chwast, Solus, Swil, Tripel, Willow, Wing, and You Go Girl!

Top Image >> Summer Time Baby by ALMA’s. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Wing (photo © Jaime Rojo)

DALeast (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sean9Lugo (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BLY (photo © Jaime Rojo)

You Go Girl needs some heart mending. Time is the only proven method, Girl. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Alice Pasquini in Syracuse, Sicily. August 2014 (photo © Alessandra de Grande)

“This is my latest wall, painted in Syracuse, Sicily with the support of the Istinto Naturale cultural association,” says Alice Pasquini of this new tableau.

“Titled ‘The myth of Arethusa and Alpheus’ it was inspired by the spring of Arethusa in Ortygia (Syracuse), a body of fresh water close to the seashore. The legend says that the nereid Arethusa, trying to escape the advances of the river god Alpheus, fled by turning into a stream, eventually breaking ground in Ortygia where Alpheus found her and was able to mingle in her waters.” ~ AP

Let the mingling begin! Although you have to admit that she doesn’t look like she’s quite committed to the idea.

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Willow and Swil (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dek’s installation of Bronx native Seymour Chwast’s posters from 1987. The timeless and timeliness of a 27 year old poster on the streets is remarkable. War Is Madness. (photo @ Jaime Rojo)

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The folks at Colossal are having a laugh with this hand painted rendering poking fun at the deluge of probing glass and steel luxury condos that are springing up around Williamsburg these days. “Insert Yourself Into Exquisite Luxury Surroundings”. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Paul Insect (photo © Jaime Rojo)

In this new piece in Wynwood, Miami, Pete Kirill depicts James Bond (Sean Connery) as 1990’s hip-hop artist Vanilla Icee. (photo © Cesar Mieses)

BAST (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tripel (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Solus for The L.I.S.A. Project. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The only surviving plate from the series Ryan McGiness installed in collaboration with DOT for Summer Streets Series. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jerk Face (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Manhattan, NYC. Summer 2014. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nether and New Community Murals This Summer In Baltimore

August 30, 2014 Artists

A colorful harvest of local folk on walls here as we bring you images Nether has been painting this summer in his native Baltimore by himself and with friends. A mix of community projects and independently initiated walls painted on Baltimore’s surplus quantity of abandoned buildings, the style brings to mind community murals of the past, but it also has a genuinely new spirit. Nether and others like Gaia, LNY, and Mata Ruda are among some who are influencing and ushering in what BSA is calling “the new muralism”.

Nether. “The Fight For Building Blocks” Baltimore, MD. (photo © Nether)

The new muralism has evolved in the last five years from clusters of Street Artists who were originally interested in getting their name out and to advocate in some cases for their sociopolitical viewpoints but who also are often responding to calls from communities for intermediaries who can help them tell their stories. Taking root in this city and others like Newark, Jersey City, Atlanta, Bushwick (Brooklyn), and others, artists take into account local roots and are creating themes and portraits of everyday heroes and heroines and telling their stories. These are US eastern seaboard names but we have seen and heard these sentiments from cities as far as Honolulu, Berlin, and Delhi. This is what happens when people talk to each other.

Nether. “Tangled” Baltimore, MD. (photo © Nether)

In cities where “Street Art” or “Urban Art” festivals have been hosted, artists and producers have heard criticism that the international circuit of visiting artists are not always sensitive to the culture and the history of the locality. Their point is enhanced by a certain homogeneity of styles recurring on walls in many cities that is somehow separate from the culture, like a chain store or restaurant. Many organizers have responded by being more inclusive of the locals and today we are seeing a mural making tributary of Street Art that is maturing with an altruistic, intention-driven interest in empowering neighborhoods and their various populations that is reflective of the local in addition to the global.

Nether. “Fingers Crossed” Baltimore, MD. (photo © Nether)

Nether. A tribute to the author and poet Maya Angelou in Baltimore, MD. (photo © Nether)

Nether paraphrased this quote near this portrait;

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”

– Maya Angelou

Nether. Vulpes Vulpes. Baltimore, MD. (photo © Nether)

Nether. Detail. Vulpes Vulpes. Baltimore, MD. (photo © Nether)

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BSA Film Friday 08.29.14

August 29, 2014 Artists

Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening :

1. GIFS GONE WILD! in London Streets

BSA Special Feature: Guus ter Beek & Tayfun Sarier

Only one video this week because we have crossed a threshold with this one and it proudly stands on its own.

“GIFS gone WILD!” Otherwise known as “Internet Proposes Marriage to The Street”.

Guus ter Beek & Tayfun Sarier are just the sort of experimenters that keep the Street Art scene fresh and a live petri dish for interaction and discovery. Using a form of art that folks like Street Artist General Howe has been exploring in his military state wake-up-call cartoons online for the past year or so, these two guys invited fourteen GIF artists to display their rapid-loop digital optics to air on the street.

Oops, sorry if those Gen Howe bits were too violent and disconcerting. Lighten things up with this Cat GIF Tumblr.

The framed iPads are affixed to lamp posts and stuck throughout locations in London like Shoreditch High Street, Curtain Road, Liverpool Street, Oxford Street, Regent Street, Westminster Bridge, and Trafalgar Square. Yes, they do get attention, say the artists, and not surprisingly, from millenials who are already transfixed by their own handy flat screens at all times.

This is just the kind of experimentation we’ll be drawing attention to next week in Stavanger, Norway when we present BSA Film Friday LIVE at Nuart PLUS 2014, with special guest Vandalog. We’ll be looking at explorers, experimenters, and Anti-heroes who have been showing up on our weekly dashboard and RJ has already shown us some pretty funny new ones we hadn’t seen yet.

Shout out to these experimenters and to the GIF artists including Dain Fagerholm Davidope, Disney, Second-Impact, Haydiroket, Nintendo-Gifs, 89-a, Totaleyefuck, Spacecadet, Endearingyouare, Caitlin Burns, Clay Rodery, Falcao Lucas, and Miron. Imagine what the streets will look like when tablets are for sale in the dollar bin.

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“Beautiful Times” hits Brooklyn, Beacon and Back to Colorado

August 28, 2014 Artists

The “Beautiful Times” tour by Amanda Marie and X-0 has brought them back to Denver Colorado where it began. We shared with you images and a semi-travelogue for their earlier installations along this summer tour in Denver and Philadelphia. In this final installment of their easy-going art-making project we find them in Brooklyn and the upstate small town of Beacon, New York, where many New Yorkers went to settle in the 2000s, creating a kinship that continues to today.

An now a quick look at their respective public works in Brooklyn, most of it in the DUMBO neighborhood. “We got our paint for this leg of the journey at a place called Park Delicatessen,” X-O says as he lists the items on offer there – and would you care to guess which ones he likes most? “Here is what they sold there…skateboards, flowers, spray paint, and smart sexy porn zines,” he relates. “Are you freaking joking? This is the most perfect shop ever.”

Amanda Marie. Beautiful Times. Brooklyn (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Amanda Marie. Beautiful Times. Brooklyn. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Amanda Marie cutting stencils at a makeshift studio in DUMBO. Beautiful Times. Brooklyn. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

X-O. Beautiful Times. Brooklyn (photo © Jaime Rojo)

X-O. DUMBO, Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Heading north up the Hudson River, the two found that, “After being fully infatuated with the hustle and bustle of Brooklyn, it was an unseen and uber appreciated change of pace to have our next stop in Beacon,” says X-0.

They liked to small town sophisticated vibe and couldn’t believe how nice the people were. “Amanda painted an amazing ‘campground’ scene alongside the Beacon Natural Market,” he says, and he made a new ‘lost object piece’ in the same spot that a Ron English piece had run on for a while. “I also made one small #emogarden called ‘real sweet noise’ while waiting for Mando to get done with her big wall.”

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Amanda Marie. Beautiful Times. Beacon, NY. (photo © Alan Goldsmith)

Amanda Marie. Beautiful Times. Beacon, NY. (photo © X-O)

Amanda Marie. Beautiful Times. Beacon, NY. (photo © Alan Goldsmith)

X-O. Beautiful Times. Beacon, NY. (photo © Ethan Harrison)

X-O. Beautiful Times. Beacon, NY. (photo © X-O)

X-O. Beautiful Times. Beacon, NY. (photo © Ethan Harrison)

Going back to Colorado after being pretty much city struck for the last few weeks was a welcome return.

“Immediately I escaped to the Rocky Mountains and made some ‘string stretches’ in the woods. One of the most successful was a gravity piece I’ve called ‘Gravity Log 1’. I left the cotton twine…Is that littering? Hmmm.”

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Amanda Marie. Beautiful Times. Aztlan Skate Park. F. Collins, Colorado (photo © courtesy of X-O)

X-O. Beautiful Times. Launch. Colorado. (photo © X-O)

X-O. Beautiful Times. Rocky Mountains, Colorado. (photo © X-O)

Amanda Marie and X-O would like to thank Todd Masters from Masters Projects in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

They would also like to thank Dan and Kalene from Thundercut/OpenSpace in Beacon, as well as a number of neighborly photographers who were generous with their time and talents in Beacon.

They would also like to thank Andy Weiss in Colorado.

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Amanda Marie and X-O “Beautiful Times” in Denver, CO

Amanda Marie and X-O “Beautiful Times” in Philadelphia

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Shepard Fairey and the Future in New York’s Little Italy

August 27, 2014 Artists

Before the summer ends New York is still happily awash in myriad public festivals, concerts, street fairs, free Shakespeare in the park, stoop sales, fire hydrant fountains, rooftop parties and of course tourists who would like to scale a bridge. Last week our August dog days extended to welcome one of Street Art’s bigger names to swing through with a new mural that drew small crowds with a decidedly optimistic message.

Shepard Fairey in collaboration with The L.I.S.A. Project. NYC. August 2014. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Shepard Fairey doesn’t really do small. It has to be a vast designed and balanced swath of red, black and ochre that takes over an entire wall or it is nothing. Well, maybe he’ll slap up a couple of stickers on lamp posts while you’re not looking.

He also doesn’t appear to do fake. When that extended crane lift finally lowers him to the ground he makes time to say hello to admirers, artists, and the occasional antagonist and to sign his name, shake a hand, listen to a story and offer a thoughtful opinion. In this age of quickly spreading news across social media, word of Fairey’s new mural on Bowery and Broome didn’t take long to ricochet across phones and before you knew it there were people on the sidewalk and dangling off roofs to get a good view.

Shepard Fairey in collaboration with The L.I.S.A. Project. NYC. August 2014. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Not strictly Street Art and not strictly in Little Italy, the new work is part of a commercial neighborhood improvement initiative that has brought pleasing murals by Street Artists to the tourist frequented area of Little Italy over the past two years. Over the course of three days the socially conscious Fairey and his brand Obey scored one wall for a symbol of peace during a summer that has pounded in our ears with war drums in Ukraine, Russia, Syria, Libya, Israel, Palestine, and Iraq, among other sites of strife on the world stage.

A slogan at the bottom of the banner says “Transform Our World With Creative Response”; a nebulous enough sentiment that may be interpreted a few ways, and somewhat ironic on this island that is no longer open to young struggling creatives unless they can pay the $5K monthly rents this neighborhood often demands. But the burning fire in the chest of the dove – we’ll just take a chance and say that it stands for our collective yearning for peace and freedom.

Let’s hope Fairey sees something in the future many of us are missing.

Shepard Fairey in collaboration with The L.I.S.A. Project. NYC. August 2014. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

To learn more about The L.I.S.A. Project, click HERE.

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Faring Purth Repairs “Cookie”, Somber in St. Louis

August 26, 2014 Artists

Faring Purth just wrapped up another large mural piece in St. Louis and it was a rough ride to the finish.

“Some idiot vandalized the latest work from new-to-St. Louis artist Faring Purth Thursday,” reported The Riverfront Times when the painting in progress was strewn with words common to boys in seventh grade.

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“Her name is Cookie,” say Ms. Purth about the character on the red brick wall. “She was actually tagged the night Mike Brown was shot,” she says of the killing of a young man in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson that has gripped much of the country this month, and she can’t help but see a connection. “A random act of violence across her heart – they always get the soft spots,” she says.

With her customary tact, Purth has repaired her rather somber painting, and we’re happy to share it here with BSA readers. If only all wounds could be healed so quickly.

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Labrona and Troy Lovegates Join Season 3 of “Painted Desert Project”

August 25, 2014 Artists

We’re in the Arizona desert today where the third season of Street Artist Jetsonorama’s “Painted Desert Project” has been gently and purposefully been rolling out this summer. The wholistic blend of the political, social, and personal in these works completed in the Navajo Nation is a natural alchemy; the idea of separating them is a non-starter for this doctor/artist/organizer/activist otherwise known as Chip Thomas.

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With the project and his own work Chip says he aims to amplify the voices of the people on the reservation. The invited artists roll in at different intervals through the year, giving them time to absorb the life and the environment and to respond to it in a way that is perhaps more integrated than other projects with Street Artists.

“Photogenic country, eh?” says the Canadian Street Artist named Labrona, who shows us today some of the works he left with his buddy Troy Love Gates AKA OTHER, who he doesn’t get to see too much of these days since OTHER moved to California. “It was a great trip and I got to spend time with Other.”

Included artists over the course of this years “Painted Desert Project” are Monica Canilao and Doodles (Nick Mann), LNY, Jaz, Hyuro, and next year Nicolas Lampert of Justseeds is already on board. Chip and Monica also have completed a collaboration that is also being used as a poster in coordination with Justseeds to promote the “People’s Climate March” in New York next month. See a copy of the poster at the end of this posting.

A collaborative image created by Jetsonorama and Monica Canilao for JustSeeeds and the promotion of the People’s Climate March in New York September 21.

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BSA Images Of The Week: 08.24.14

August 24, 2014 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Angelina Christina, Azores, City Kitty, Colettivo FX, Damon, EaseOne, Fidel Evora, F.S., Gone Postal, HDL Corporation, JR, Kraken, Love is Telepathic, Mark Samsonovich, Mesa, Never, Pixote, Rubin415, Seher, Smithe, Specter, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Wrdsmth, and X-O.

Specter for the Walk and Talk Art Festival in Azores, Portugal. August 2014. (photo @ Specter)

Specter and Mesa in Cadiz, Spain. August 2014. (photo @ Specter)

Fidel Evora for the Walk and Talk Art Festival in Azores, Portugal. August 2014. (photo @ Specter)

Collettivo FX explains the portrait above:

“In our city of Reggio Emilia in Italy there is a very big factory named Officine Reggiane that is completely abandoned. It was famous in Italy for its metal work production (they made the Orient Express train, the crane used for the Costa Concordia, and then there was the longest occupation of a factory in the history of Italy here).

Now this is a major venue for graffiti and a refuge for homeless people. We began going to the factory more that two years ago and some of the people living there became our friends; in particular a man named Abidi, who we named “the boss of the Officine Reggiane”.

So a few weeks ago Abidi announced to us that he is leaving the factory to go back to Tunisia: he had found a wife! So, we thought about a gift we could give him. We are poor, very poor, we just had the paint, so one night we went in the factory (usually we go during the day) and we painted a big portrait of Abidi in the principal part of the place. It’s a gift for Abidi but also for us and for our memories of the Officine Reggiane.”

F.S. We are intrigued by this bubble tag. Was the stencil work done by a different artist? Is this the original piece as first installed by the artist? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Manhattan, NYC. August 2014. It looks like Spiderman has found a formidable adversary. Last time he saw him battling this monster hanging from wire cables in Williamsburg. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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2 Marches in the Streets 25 Years Apart: Yusef Hawkins and Eric Garner

August 23, 2014 Artists

As thousands march in the streets of New York City to protest the death of Eric Garner in Staten Island today we are reminded of a similar series of marches that happened in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn exactly 25 years ago. Then, as now, the city was hurting because of our collective inability to face our legacy of racism and many of the speeches given today were almost identical to the ones given then. Reverend Al Sharpton was in that march and here he is again, as well as many other leaders and people of good faith.

A few years ago we shared with you the particulars of 16 year old Yusef Hawkins who was chased and killed because of his race and the memorial that Street Artist Specter had placed on a wall to remember him (see Specter Memorializes Yusef Hawkins in Brooklyn).

Friday the local radio station WNYC revisited the neighborhood to see how much had changed and how much has stayed the same.

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±MaisMenos± new word stencil at Tou Scene. Nuart 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Strøk has been invited back t0 Nuart 2014. This is an old piece from last year. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Strøk has been invited back t0 Nuart 2014. This is an old piece from last year. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Icy & Sot. Nuart 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Icy & Sot working on their installation for Tou Scene. Nuart 2104. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Andreco working on his wall. Nuart 2104. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Dotmasters did a much larger version of this on a entire building side for a previous edition of Nuart. This one is a tiny hidden version with the bear about the size of a hand-span. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Volunteers leaving Nuart Studio and an old but hugely dramatic Dotmasters stencil from a previous edition of Nuart hangs on the right. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Missed Connections with Lionel Ritchie. Nuart 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Jamie Paul Scanlon, alias JPS. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Jamie Paul Scanlon, alias JPS. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

A poster advertising an upcoming event and a piece by Ernest Sacharevic from last year’s editon of Nuart. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Posters advertising Reed Projects, NUART and NUMUSIC events are all over this part of town. NUART 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

A wall with a cluster of previous NUART alumni: C215, HUSH, Word To Mother and D*face. NUART 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

A Dan Witz piece from a previous Nuart edition. NUART 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Artist Unknown. NUART 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Artist Hama Wood putting up a fresh stencil at Tou Scene. NUART 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Aakash Nihalani from a previous edition of Nuart. NUART 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Artist Unknown. NUART 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Team Borondo working on the installation for Tou Scene. NUART 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

This Is Not @rt. NUART 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Artist Unknown. NUART 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Etam Cru. Nuart 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © courtesy of Nuart)

Etam Cru. Nuart 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © courtesy of Nuart)

Etam Cru. Nuart 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © courtesy of Nuart)

Etam Cru. Nuart 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © courtesy of Nuart)

Etam Cru. Nuart 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © courtesy of Nuart)

Etam Cru. Nuart 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © courtesy of Nuart)

NUART 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

John Fekner. NUART 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Nuart wheels when you need them. NUART 2014. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

John Fekner Broken Promises Falsas Promesas South Bronx NY 1980

Top Image >> Summer Time Baby by ALMA’s. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Wing (photo © Jaime Rojo)

DALeast (photo © Jaime Rojo)

DALeast (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sean9Lugo (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BLY (photo © Jaime Rojo)

You Go Girl needs some heart mending. Time is the only proven method, Girl. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Willow and Swil (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Willow and Swil (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Willow and Swil (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dek’s installation of Bronx native Seymour Chwast’s posters from 1987. The timeless and timeliness of a 27 year old poster on the streets is remarkable. War Is Madness. (photo @ Jaime Rojo)

The folks at Colossal are having a laugh with this hand painted rendering poking fun at the deluge of probing glass and steel luxury condos that are springing up around Williamsburg these days. “Insert Yourself Into Exquisite Luxury Surroundings”. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Paul Insect (photo © Jaime Rojo)

In this new piece in Wynwood, Miami, Pete Kirill depicts James Bond (Sean Connery) as 1990’s hip-hop artist Vanilla Icee. (photo © Cesar Mieses)

BAST (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tripel (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Solus for The L.I.S.A. Project. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The only surviving plate from the series Ryan McGiness installed in collaboration with DOT for Summer Streets Series. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jerk Face (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Manhattan, NYC. Summer 2014. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nether. “The Fight For Building Blocks” Baltimore, MD. (photo © Nether)

Nether. “Tangled” Baltimore, MD. (photo © Nether)

Nether. “Fingers Crossed” Baltimore, MD. (photo © Nether)

Nether. A tribute to the author and poet Maya Angelou in Baltimore, MD. (photo © Nether)

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”

– Maya Angelou

Nether. Vulpes Vulpes. Baltimore, MD. (photo © Nether)

Nether. Detail. Vulpes Vulpes. Baltimore, MD. (photo © Nether)

Nether. Detail. Vulpes Vulpes. Baltimore, MD. (photo © Nether)

Nether. Detail. Vulpes Vulpes. Baltimore, MD. (photo © Nether)

BSA Special Feature: Guus ter Beek & Tayfun Sarier

Amanda Marie. Beautiful Times. Brooklyn (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Amanda Marie. Beautiful Times. Brooklyn. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Amanda Marie cutting stencils at a makeshift studio in DUMBO. Beautiful Times. Brooklyn. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

X-O. Beautiful Times. Brooklyn (photo © Jaime Rojo)

X-O. Beautiful Times. Brooklyn (photo © Jaime Rojo)

X-O. DUMBO, Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Amanda Marie. Beautiful Times. Beacon, NY. (photo © Alan Goldsmith)

Amanda Marie. Beautiful Times. Beacon, NY. (photo © X-O)

Amanda Marie. Beautiful Times. Beacon, NY. (photo © Alan Goldsmith)

X-O. Beautiful Times. Beacon, NY. (photo © Ethan Harrison)

X-O. Beautiful Times. Beacon, NY. (photo © X-O)

X-O. Beautiful Times. Beacon, NY. (photo © Ethan Harrison)

Amanda Marie. Beautiful Times. Aztlan Skate Park. F. Collins, Colorado (photo © courtesy of X-O)

X-O. Beautiful Times. Launch. Colorado. (photo © X-O)

X-O. Beautiful Times. Rocky Mountains, Colorado. (photo © X-O)

X-O. Beautiful Times. Rocky Mountains, Colorado. (photo © X-O)

**A wall with a cluster of previous NUART alumni: C215, HUSH, Word To Mother and D*face. NUART 2014.** Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

They would also like to thank Andy Weiss in Colorado.

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