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BSA Images Of The Week: 02.14.21

BSA Images Of The Week: 02.14.21

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. 新年快乐! Happy Lunar New Year! It’s the Year of the Ox, and there was a lot of celebration during this snowy week in New York, although it appeared to be subdued by the standards of pre-Covid times definitely.

Also, Happy Valentines Day to you! We love you more every day! Don’t change a thing; you’re perfect the way you are.

Finally, the 2nd Impeachment of Donald Trump took place this week and it was on every television, radio, laptop, and phone screen it seems.

“Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities” is the quote attributed to Voltaire that the Democrat from Maryland Jamie Raskin spoke this week at the 2nd Impeachment trial of the former president in the Senate. It ranks as one of the more memorable.

It would be a stretch to call it a trial when many who voted in this verdict were also witnesses, victims, judges, jury, and/or co-conspirators of the accused. Still, it appears to be the only available way to hold a president accountable for their actions in the U.S.

We would say that it was a good show, but it was not a good show…

Finally, he has been acquitted by a vote of 57 to 43 in the Senate. A two-thirds majority was needed. One outcome is he can run for office again if he wishes. No matter the result of these events, it was inevitable that there would be a pervasive feeling of unrest.

One question remains: Was the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol the end of an era or the beginning?

Here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring 7 Line Arts Studio, Al Diaz, Awol Erizcu, BK Foxx, Clown Soldier, Fire Flower, Goog, Pear, Queen Andrea, Riley Gale, SAMO, and Seung Jin.

BKFoxx helps usher the Chinese New Year in China Town, NY. This is the year of the OX. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
7 Line Arts Studio showing love… (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Queen Andrea for today’s Valentine Day. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Queen Andrea (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Clown Soldier makes a come back with this bus shelter take over in NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
GOOG (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Al Diaz tribute to Basquiat on Basquiat’s old studio in NYC. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Al Diaz tribute to Basquiat on Basquiat’s old studio in NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Pear (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Awol Erizcu (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Riley Gale (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Fire Flower (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Seung Jin. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Seung Jin (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Manhattan, NYC. February 2021. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 01.03.2021

BSA Images Of The Week: 01.03.2021

Welcome to the first BSA Images of the Week of 2021 !

We start our collection this week with an image of Christ crucified on a Facebook logo. If this is the level of subtlety that we can expect from the new year…gurl, we in trubble.

In fact, we have found that much of the organic street art that we find today has become increasingly strident in opinions expressed, especially around themes of social justice and political skullduggery. It’s all mixed in with favorites like pop figures, sports figures, cats. In a way, the artists are ahead of us, so we consider these images as the tea leaves for what is coming.

How will you interpret these messages from the street? Will you become emboldened? Scared? Or will they not have any impact on passersby?

Here is our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring 7 Line Arts Studio, Bastard Bot, Calicho Art, Captain Eyeliner, Calisi Maultra, City Kity, CRKSHNK, David F Barthold, Degrupo, Elle, Jeff Roseking, Joseph Grazi, NohJColey, Poi Everywhere, Sickid, Sticker Maul, and Stikman.

Joseph Grazi (photo © Jaime Rojo)
NohJColey made an appearance in 2020 after a long absence from the streets of NYC. This wall hanging was repurposed by a construction crew as a bridge flooring- giving it a new patterned patina. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Elle in collaboration with The L.I.S.A. Project NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Elle in collaboration with The L.I.S.A. Project NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Elle in collaboration with The L.I.S.A. Project NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Elle in collaboration with The L.I.S.A. Project NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sitkman with a gone over portrait of the Notorious RBG by Captain Eyeliner. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sitkman (photo © Jaime Rojo)
City Kitty (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sticker Maul (photo © Jaime Rojo)
CRKSHNK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
CRKSHNK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
David F Barthold (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Captian Eyeliner (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Bastard Bot (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Bastard Bot (photo © Jaime Rojo)
7 Line Arts Studio (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sickid (photo © Jaime Rojo)
DeGrupo (photo © Jaime Rojo)
DeGrupo. Bezos for Mr. Bezos (photo © Jaime Rojo)
DeGrupo (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Carlisi Maultra (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Poi Everywhere (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Calicho Art with Jeff Roseking (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Calicho Art with Jeff Roseking (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Calicho Art with Jeff Roseking (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Hudson River, NYC. December 2020. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 11.29.20

BSA Images Of The Week: 11.29.20

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week.

Hope you had a good Thanksgiving, although it is hard to imagine anyone feeling like it was great, considering that we now have long food lines around the city on a daily basis as more and more people are going hungry.

In our own Brooklyn neighborhood during a Thanksgiving stroll we witnessed people cueing up to get into a local overpriced restaurant while one block later we saw 4 people – two middle aged women and two teenagers – opening garbage bags on the sidewalk and looking for 5 cent returnable bottles.

Remind us please: Is this a Republican failure, or a Democratic failure? The wealth gap has continued to grow no matter who was in office for the last few decades. We are better than this.

Looks like Trump has finally accepted that he lost and is now turning his attention to who he will pardon. Regarding his hometown New York City, Trump will probably come back like a rash, fielding lawsuits and bragging about one thing or another. Other recent articles are turning attention to his various brood and surmising things like “Ivanka Probably Isn’t Welcome Back in New York City.”

Here is our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring A Toy Shop, Allei Kelley, CRKSHNK, De Grupo, Downtown DaVinci, Eye Sticker, I Heart Graffiti, Tenderloin Television, and The Postman Art.

Downtown DaVacini – 7 Line Arts Studio (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Downtown DaVacini – 7 Line Arts Studio (photo © Jaime Rojo)
I Heart Graffiti (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
De Grupo (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Eye Sticker, De Grupo (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Tenderloin Television (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
A Toy Shop (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Allei Kelley Art (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The Postman Art (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Eye Sticker (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified Artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Old Post Office Building. Manhattan, NYC. 11.2020 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 08.16.20

BSA Images Of The Week: 08.16.20

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week. Kamala and identity politics are IN, workers are OUT, and the US Postal Service is being dissembled before our eyes. Are we supposed to find a light-hearted rejoinder to this news?

Let’s see what the streets are telling us.

Here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring Almost Over Keep Smiling, Billy Barnacles, Gianni Lee, City Kitty, CRKSHNK, Early Riser NYC, Seven Line Arts Studio, M*Code, Ori Carino, Sticker Maul, Turtle Caps, Urban Russian Doll NYC, and You Go Girl!

Almost Over Keep Smiling (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sticker Maul (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ori Carino. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ori Carino (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified Artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
7 Line Arts Studio (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified Artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Early Riser NYC for East Village Walls (photo © Jaime Rojo)
City Kitty in collaboration with Turtle Caps. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
City Kitty . Turtle Caps (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Urban Russian Doll NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
No Sleep (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified Artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
M*Code in collaboration with crkshnk. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified Artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Billy Barnacles (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Gianni Lee (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified Artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
You Go Girl (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. August 2020. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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