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BSA Images Of The Week: 07.13.25

BSA Images Of The Week: 07.13.25

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Welcome to BSA Images of the Week.

Here in Brooklyn we move through a lush delirium—a rhapsody in blue and green, thick with summer and song, strident prose, a bit of jazz. In certain pockets of creativity the aerosol fumes from many a graff writer and mural painter are landing like a cloud on your sweaty skin and sliding off into the sewer below. The echos of Saturday night stereo is pounding in our memories with the adorable Atlanta hedonism of Bunna Summa and the swooning Puerto Rican charms of suavicito Bad Bunny. Vices and voices lilt through the neighborhood at night; a humidity induced dream that confirms we are all “New Yol” now.

Yes, the world feels upside down—truths twisted, systems slipping, war drums on many fronts—but for now it’s summer in Brooklyn, and we’re still in love. So let’s take our time… dance in the streets, drift across rooftops, wander the train tracks. Let the city hold us a little longer.

Here’s a glimpse of NYC graffiti, street art, and murals captured in this week’s survey, including Below Key, Ed Roth, EXR, Fumero, ICU463, Klepo One, Luch, Never Satisfied, Nick Walker, Sonni, TQRY, and Wizard Skull.

Being (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Being (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Being (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Being (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SONNI (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Luch (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ICU463 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ICU463 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ICU463 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Below Key (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Wizard Skull (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Below Key – Wizard Skull (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Never Satisfied (photo © Jaime Rojo)
EXR (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified Artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified Artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified Artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified Artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Fumero (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Nick Walker. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Nick Walker. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Nick Walker (photo © Jaime Rojo)
KLEPO ONE (photo © Jaime Rojo)
TQRY (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Let’s spend the night together. Ed Roth (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Upstate New York. July 4, 2025. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 06.08.2025

BSA Images Of The Week: 06.08.2025

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! Eid Mubarak to all observing today. Happy Puerto Rican Parade to todos nuestras hermanos y hermanas. We’re grateful to live in a city that celebrates many traditions with such heart. That’s why it’s always perplexing to see Ken and Barbie-types on the national stage vociferating about DEI as if it were a mold on the back wall of your refrigerator. Equality has always been the point.

Banksy’s recent mural in Marseille, France, continues the Bristol artist’s tradition of indirect yet emotionally charged communication. Painted on Rue Félix Frégier, the black-and-white stencil depicts a lighthouse, accompanied by the phrase “I want to be what you saw in me.” Cleverly integrated into its environment, the mural uses the shadow of a nearby street bollard to serve as the lighthouse’s beam—an understated but remarkable visual device.

Interpretations vary, but we’ll venture one: it reads as an oblique critique of nations or institutions once seen as guiding lights—sources of moral or cultural leadership—that now appear directionless or diminished. The lighthouse, in this reading, becomes a symbol of lost purpose. Aware that no one looks to it for guidance anymore, it expresses a quiet resignation, perhaps even grief. Poor lighthouse. The Smithsonian magazine says its just a straightforward plea for attention from the artist. The view may seem surprising, but more astonishing is that the Smithsonian weighed in at all.

Now it’s your turn to be the armchair psychologist or social analyst.

This week in break-up news, the U.S. President and the Twitter tycoon who would be king took their grievances public, trading jabs on social media in a battle to tarnish each other’s image. Each was presumably trying to damage the other’s perception in the public eye, although that hardly seemed necessary. As George Clooney’s Edward R. Murrow put it last night, live on Broadway and live broadcasted on network television: ‘Good night, and good luck.’ As ever, it’s more about control and good money than anything else. It makes you wonder if either one of these guys could be sworn in as president in January ’29. Has a certain ring to it, no?

And here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring 2DX, Adam Fu, Atomiko, Below Key, Chris Haven, EXR, HEFS, Jason Haaf, Quaker Pirate, Scoote LaForge, Tom Bob, and Werds.

Below Key. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Below Key is above. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Below Key (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Below Key (photo © Jaime Rojo)
WERDS. EXR. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
EXR. WERDS. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ATOMIKO (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Tom Bob NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Scooter LaForge. Jason Haaf. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Quaker Pirate (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist offering a controversial opinion. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
2DX (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Chris Haven (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Chris Haven (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
2000? Please help with the ID. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
HEFS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
So does this mean your cologne would help you smell like a sheep? Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Adam Fujita. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Adam Fujita (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Brooklyn, NYC. June 2025. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 06.01.2025

BSA Images Of The Week: 06.01.2025

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! Love you to the moon, June!

In New York yesterday, gamers marked the launch of the city’s first annual Video Game Festival, where esports battles, indie demos, and retro arcades spilled into real life like the final boss stage. With its mashup of pixel nostalgia and future-forward tech, the festival echoed the spirit of underground subcultures — not unlike street art — where DIY worlds are built, rules are rewritten, and creativity levels up with every move.

You may prefer experiences in the actual physical world, so Bushwick Collective had a flood of in-person opportunities for visitors to their 14th block party this weekend. Thousands of people from around the city and many parts of the world were there to see hundreds of murals, live artists painting, and a showcase of rapping firebrands of the underground scene – ending with a performance by hip-hop architect Rakim, who was, of course, paid in full.

At BEYOND THE STREETS, curator and publisher Roger Gastman sat down with graffiti artist RIME for an intimate conversation and book signing highlighting RIME’s raw, unfiltered sketchbook—a personal and psychedelic blend of graffiti, visual journaling, and spiritual reflection created entirely in pen during his travels across the U.S.

And here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Below Key, Blanco, Bisser, Danilo Parrales, Detor, Gouch NKC, Gregos, Kosuke James, MSG Crew, Nite Owl, Nito, Skewville, Tom Bob, Turtle Caps, Zero Productivity, Zoot, and ZUI.

Tom Bob NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ZUI. Tom Bob NYC. Turtle Caps. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Turtle Caps. Tom Bob NYC. Below Key. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Below Key. Turtle Caps. Zero Pro. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Zero Pro. Nite Owl. Below Key. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Danilo Parrales (photo © Jaime Rojo)
DETOR. GOUCH. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
DETOR (photo © Jaime Rojo)
GOUCH (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Blanco. BedStuy Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
BedStuy Walls (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Kosuke James. BedStuy Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SKEWVILLE (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ZOOT (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
GREGOS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ian Cinco. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ian Cinco (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Bisser (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Bisser (photo © Jaime Rojo)
MSG CREW (photo © Jaime Rojo)
NITO (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BSA Images Of The Week: 03.16.25

BSA Images Of The Week: 03.16.25

Welcome to BSA’s Images of the Week!

Purim has wrapped up in Brooklyn after three days and two nights of exuberant revelry in Hasidic neighborhoods—a celebration that, at first glance, might seem like a fusion of Halloween and New Year’s, complete with thousands of costumed kids and exuberant teens, many of whom are noticeably inebriated, blasting music into the night from roaming RVs. Of course, this being New York, the city takes it all in stride—because if there’s one place that can handle a rolling, Yiddish-speaking Mardi Gras in March, it’s Brooklyn.

President Trump hosted a promotional event for Tesla at the White House alongside Elon Musk this week, amid ongoing debates over the company’s public perception, which has included incidents of vandalized cars and a street art sticker campaign referencing the controversy. Separately, a post on the president’s social media account featured a crossed-out pink triangle, a symbol historically used in Nazi Germany to mark gay men in concentration camps, raising concerns about its implications.

In NYC news, a new exhibition celebrates the 20th anniversary of those orange fluttering “gates” one winter in Central Park. Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Gates and Unrealized Projects for New York City at The Shed is an immersive exhibition that includes an augmented reality component and rekindles memories for those who witnessed The Gates and unveils hidden stories for new audiences. Also, a shout out to the artist duo Zorawar Sidhu and Rob Swainston and their new show Flash Point at Petzel. In visually arresting large-scale woodcut and silkscreen prints that echo the chaotic energy of city streets, they examine the Anthropocene, forced migrations, and American civil unrest through layered compositions that slow down the rapid circulation of news imagery.

And we continue with our interview with the street, this week including Degrupo, Below Key, JerkFace, Roachi, BK Ackler, Denis Ouch, Manuel Alejandro NYC, ATOMS, Wild West, Helch, Sport, Zore64, Obek, and Soul.

Jerkface (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ROACHI (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ZORE64 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ZORE64 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
N.Y.C. 25 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
HOPE from Boorloo (Perth) paints a portrait of model Nina Stodden. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
It really feels like the WILD WEST out here. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
HOMESICK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Degrupo. Below Key (photo © Jaime Rojo)
BK ACKLER (photo © Jaime Rojo)
LOVE (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Denis Ouch (photo © Jaime Rojo)
HELCH (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SPORT (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ATOMS OBEKS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Manuel Alejandro (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SOUL (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Golden hour NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 01.26.25

BSA Images Of The Week: 01.26.25

Bitter is right! The city’s temperature has been below freezing every day this week, and the sentiments coming out of the new White House appear to be bitterly subzero. We will be looking for artists to respond to the raft of new declarations, announcements, and aspirations spread across the political landscape. You can’t simply ban and deport everyone who you despise – it doesn’t work. When you see powerful people punching down with such hostility… – even a half-asleep school counselor with a coffee-stained clipboard would ask if everything is okay at home. The behavior on display this week might bring to mind something Grandma Arlene used to say when you were a mouthy teenager: ‘Maybe it’s time to take a good look in the mirror, mister!”

When it comes to graffiti and street art, we’ll keep an eye on the streets; In times of crisis and uncertainty, the artist’s voice emerges strongest, as adversity is the canvas on which creativity thrives.

Here’s our weekly conversation with the street, this week featuring City Kitty, Below Key, Huetek, Muebon, Rheo, Roachi, Such, Humble, Le Crue, Denis Ouch, Notic, Stu, Toney, Jay Diggz, EST, The Slasher, Soren, HELCH, Louie167, and Wanted.

Denis Ouch (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Below Key. Louie167 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Below Key. Louie167 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Below Key. Louie167 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Below Key (photo © Jaime Rojo)
TONEY (photo © Jaime Rojo)
WANTED (photo © Jaime Rojo)
WANTED (photo © Jaime Rojo)
WANTED (photo © Jaime Rojo)
City Kitty…So Pretty. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Muebon (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Muebon, Jay Diggz, Rheo, SOSabk. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
EST STU(photo © Jaime Rojo)
Fear and loathing in Brooklyn, thanks to Hunter S. Thompson and SUCH (photo © Jaime Rojo)
HUETEK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ROACHY (photo © Jaime Rojo)
THE SLASHER (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SOREN (photo © Jaime Rojo)
HUMBLE (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Le Crue (photo © Jaime Rojo)
NOTICE (photo © Jaime Rojo)
HELCH (photo © Jaime Rojo)
NOW! (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Manhattan, NYC. January, 2025. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 06.16.24

BSA Images Of The Week: 06.16.24

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Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

There is a lot of activity on the street right now, and despite the rain in Florida and the upcoming Heat Dome we’re promised here in the Northeast, the graffiti and Street Art never stop. Here, we mix some pieces from Belfast with Brooklyn. See if you can tell regional differences in style.

Here is our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Veng RWK, Praxia VGZ, Below Key, Fanakapan, Christina Angelina, Reme821, BK Ackler, WRDSMTH, KVLR, Staylo, CHAZ, Visual Graficalia, NEVOC, Voyder, REGOR, AMC, ESTEME, and Rob Hilken.

Fanakapan. Hit The North Festival – 2021 Edition. Belfast, Northern Ireland. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Christina Angelina. Hit The North Festival – 2015 Edition. Belfast, Northern Ireland. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Voyder. Hit The North Festival – 2023 Edition. Belfast, Northern Ireland. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Visual Graficalia. Hit The North Festival – 2018 Edition. Belfast, Northern Ireland. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
KVLR. Hit The North Festival – 2023 Edition. Belfast, Northern Ireland. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
CHAZ (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Veng RWK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist. Belfast, Northern Ireland. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist. Belfast, Northern Ireland. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Below Key (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Staylo. Belfast, Northern Ireland. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
STE (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Rob Hilken. Hit The North Festival – 2024 Edition. Belfast, Northern Ireland. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ESTEME. TGE (photo © Jaime Rojo)
AMC. Hit The North Festival – 2024 Edition. Belfast, Northern Ireland. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
AMC. Hit The North Festival – 2024 Edition. Belfast, Northern Ireland. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
AMC. Hit The North Festival – 2024 Edition. Belfast, Northern Ireland. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
BK Ackler (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Keep Going (photo © Jaime Rojo)
REME821 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
REGOR (photo © Jaime Rojo)
NEVOC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Praxis (photo © Jaime Rojo)
WRDSMTH (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Balloons. June 2024. NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 02.04.24

BSA Images Of The Week: 02.04.24

Oh, You Flatter Us.

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

It’s always a fun week when The New York Times quotes Brooklyn Street Art, like today’s riveting analyses of one New York celebrity outlaw everyone can agree upon, Flaco the Owl. So this week, we will not insult the corporate legacy press because we are in league with them, obviously.

Here is our weekly interview with the street: this week featuring Faile, Homesick, Below Key, Degrupo, UNO, Dirty Bandits, Pear, MeresOne, Qzar, BG183, NYC Hooker, Tats Crew, Albertus Joseph, Rari Grafix, Notice, Toney, Fear, Horn, Lare, and OTM Crew.

Albertus Joseph. OTM Graff Crew. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Albertus Joseph. OTM Graff Crew. MeresOne. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
MeresOne (photo © Jaime Rojo)
MeresOne. Welling Court Mural Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dirty Bandits / Your Are Not Alone Murals. Welling Court Mural Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
NYC Hooker. Welling Court Mural Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Rari Grafix. Welling Court Mural Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Rari Grafix. Welling Court Mural Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
BG183 / Tats Cru. Welling Court Mural Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Fear (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Fear (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Below Key (photo © Jaime Rojo)
NOTICE (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Faile (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
QZAR. LOVE. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
DEGRUPO. VISION. HOMESICK and friends. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Degrupo. Pear. Lare. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
TONEY. HORN. UNO. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
TONEY. HORN. UNO. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Winter 2024. NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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Box Trucks – Some of the Best Graffiti On Wheels

Box Trucks – Some of the Best Graffiti On Wheels

Jaime Rojo has built an impressive collection of photographs of these, capturing the essence of New York’s streets through his lens with an array of box trucks that weave and jolt their way through traffic, often seen opening their gates to load and unload amidst the noise of city life. These trucks, adorned with cryptic and crazily painted graffiti, have become pivotal platforms for urban expression, succeeding subway cars as the canvas of choice after the MTA’s crackdown on trains. Rojo’s vast archive features hundreds, perhaps thousands, of these nomadic art pieces, transforming ordinary vehicles into a main showcase for artists’ narratives and tributes to urban royalty, with eclectic themes and styles that span all five boroughs.

VERS (photo © Jaime Rojo)

These mobile galleries, nestled on private property and often commissioned by the owners, navigate a legal grey zone, untouched by state or city regulations. They offer a transient exhibition space, constantly in flux, moving across bridges, navigating the FDR, or idly sitting in traffic, right beside you. Each truck is a fleeting installation, a snapshot of the city’s dynamic art scene that you may know or not.

ATOMIK (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Back in the wild days of 2014, we published a small survey of the ubiquitous box trucks roaring through the streets of NYC. Most commonly used by movers helping residents move in or out of their homes, these trucks obviously serve a more lofty purpose. You can see HERE our article from 2014.

As we present a new installation of this collection once more, we delve into the latest series of box truck artworks that continue to serenade New York’s streets. This ever-evolving display captures the spirit of the city, revealing stories and visions that are as mobile as they are momentary, reflecting the vibrant, shifting nature of urban life through the eyes of famed photographer Jaime Rojo. Step outside and enjoy a moving art fest on the street just for you.

BELOW KEY (photo © Jaime Rojo)
BELOW KEY (photo © Jaime Rojo)
HOMESICK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
CURVE MEMORIAL TO KYRO (photo © Jaime Rojo)
TRACE (photo © Jaime Rojo)
HOACS (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SUCH (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SLOSHER (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SLOSHER (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SKEAMONE (photo © Jaime Rojo)
UNIDENTIFIED WRITER (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ONES (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 11.26.23

BSA Images Of The Week: 11.26.23

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

How are feeling? Did you have a good Thanksgiving day, and did you see the crowds and balloons and marching bands along the parade route and the still intact orange and yellow leaves on the trees on Central Park West? Did you see Dolly Parton dressed as a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader singing at the halftime game, and did you see your girl Ava from up the block with her vintage vest and platform boots when grandma sent you out for a can of whipped cream for the pumpkin pies?

“Have you kept pace with the latest revelation in the art world? A remarkable BBC interview with Banksy, dating back two decades, has recently surfaced, sparking renewed excitement. These are indeed vibrant times for art enthusiasts and creators alike. Take, for instance, the Brooklyn Museum’s current showcase. It features an engaging Spike Lee exhibition alongside the innovative ‘Copy Machine Manifesto.’ This zine exhibition is a deep dive into five or six decades of subcultural and counter-cultural movements. It highlights a diverse range of self-published works, including gossip magazines, graffiti newspapers (a nod to David Schmidlapp and Phase 2), and expressions from queercore to hardcore. The exhibit is an eclectic mix of self-aware conceptual art, original fashion, explorations of sexual desire and confusion, comix, handmade collage, and expressions of nihilism, ennui, satire, humor, and lamentation. It’s a vivid reflection of art and expression – and inspirational to any artist who wants to have a voice.

We’re going back for a second helping.

Here is our weekly interview with the street: this week featuring Stikman, Cosbe, Below Key, No Sleep, Huetek, Optimo NYC, Jay Shells, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, OH!, Muebon, Humble, Jappy Agoncillo, Jeff Roseking, Hu, Manual Alejando, Deter, Jason Shelowitz, and KIR.

Jappy Agoncillo (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Optimo NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Stikman. Detail from the exhibition at Skewville Presents. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Cosbe (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Muebon (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Below Key and Muebon (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Below Key and Muebon (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Below Key and Muebon. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Below Key (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jeff Roseking (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Any job is possible if you have the right kicks. KIR (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Old dogs like those old stogies. Manuel Alejandro (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Humble (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Poems (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Deter (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Huetek (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OH! (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jason Shelowitz AKA Jay Shells at “Spike Lee: Creative Sources” exhibition currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
A painting of his father, Bill Lee, by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh at “Spike Lee: Creative Sources” exhibition is currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh. Detail. At “Spike Lee: Creative Sources” exhibition currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Street Color on the sidewalks of NYC. Fall 2023. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 11.19.23

BSA Images Of The Week: 11.19.23

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

It’s a new collection of works found on the street here in New York as we head into Thanksgiving week. The boisterous and celebratory party at Skewville in Bushwick last night to celebrate the new Stikman sign show was well attended and full of fans of the artist. The old fans and new donned Stikman masks and wore name stickers saying, “Hello, I’m Stikman.” The long-time imaginative artist is a fixture on New York streets as new generations of artists come and go. Completely anonymous, he never seeks the limelight, preferring to let his copious ideas on lampposts, doorways, mailboxes, and street signs talk for him. In an age of personal influencers and attention seeking, it is refreshing to see his new works quietly capturing attention and imagination on the streets in his way. Bushwick on a Saturday night is teaming with so many crowds of people you may think you are in Wynwood, Miami, complete with food trucks and neon and thigh-high patent leather boots. But the crowds are far more diverse, and the occasional rat is scurrying across the sidewalk before you.

Here is our weekly interview with the street: this week featuring City Kitty, Adam Fujita, Below Key, Eternal Possessions, Hektag, Hops Art, Aidz, Ali Six, Tkid170, Tracy 168, Hydrane, Otam1, Abloker, Nos Ck One, Madison Storm, Melissa Schainker, Wally, J$T, FatJay, Sens-Sational, Aaron Wrinkle, and 5inck.

Adam Fu (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hektad (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sens-Sational (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Aaron Wrinkle (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hydrane (photo © Jaime Rojo)
TKid170 tribute to Tracy168. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
5inck, Otam1, Abloker, NoackOne in collaboration with The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
5inck, Otam1, Abloker, Noa CK One in collaboration with The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
City Kitty (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Below Key and Ali Six (photo © Jaime Rojo)
AIDZ (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Madison Storm (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Melissa Schainker (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Eternal Possessions (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Wally (photo © Jaime Rojo)
J$T (photo © Jaime Rojo)
J$T (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Fat Jay (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hops Art Memorial Mural to honor Sisco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hops Art Memorial Mural to honor Sisco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hops Art Memorial Mural to honor Sisco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Sunset over the East River. NYC. Fall 2023. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BSA Images Of The Week: 06.11.23

BSA Images Of The Week: 06.11.23

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

The 66th Annual Puerto Rican Parade will loudly, buoyantly, exuberantly traverse and sway along the iconic 5th Avenue in Manhattan today. Subsequently, numerous Brooklyn neighborhoods will burst into a party with lively street festivities and impromptu fiestas adorning sidewalks, sitting on stoops, and hanging out on window ledges. A collective joy and relief are in our hearts across the city this weekend, stemming from the restoration of clear air in the city; after a disheartening episode of a Dystopian Orange haze that tainted our skies for days this week.

Forest fires in Canada had blown smoke down the Hudson River to surprise everyone, and flummox many. The consequences forced people to illuminate their homes during daylight hours and drive their car with headlights on. This extraordinary event posed a threat to both the well-being and livelihoods of countless individuals, with people working outside at great danger. However, for those who turned to our local National Public Radio (NPR) station for insight, rather than talking about construction workers, municipal employees, or street food vendors, their primary concerns were remote work arrangements, ordering from Doordash, and worrying about the smoke’s effect on dogs during their daily walks. The poor and working class are routinely erased from public discourse, which is why unmediated street art often does the work.

Currently, the cityscape is adorned with captivating street art and mesmerizing murals, offering a wide array of entertainment, education, and aesthetic gratification. We hope you take pleasure in exploring photographer Jaime Rojo’s compilation.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Maya Hayuk, Below Key, Little Ricky, Mint & Serf, Billy Barnacles, Homesick, David Puck, Panic, IMK, Aidz, Robert Vargas, Salo Panto. Artistcjg89, Herman, Gabe, Tank, FLWR, and Sasha Colby.

David Puck’s tribute to Sasha Colby #transisbeautiful #pride2023 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hek Tad send Love to the Purto Rican community celebrating their culture and heritage today in NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Robert Vargas. “Heritage & Power”. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
FLWR (photo © Jaime Rojo)
MINT SERF (photo © Jaime Rojo)
MINT SERF (photo © Jaime Rojo)
MINT SERF (photo © Jaime Rojo)
IMK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
GABE TANK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Memorial Wall. R.I.P. Johny & Anthony. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Maya Hayuk. Herman. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Little Ricky (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Below Key (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Swirly Brooklyn (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Artistcjg89 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Artistcjg89 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Billy Barnacles (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Salo Panto (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Salo Panto (photo © Jaime Rojo)
AIDZ PANIC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
HOMESICK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. East River, NYC. June 2023. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 04.16.23

BSA Images Of The Week: 04.16.23

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

Here’s to New York, which we love more than ever – Especially when yahoos come to our fair city and try to trash us and spread lazy untruths about crime and smear us in a hundred ways. Look, my cousin Harold may pick on his younger sister Jicama because of her braids or her attempt to dance with her dumb friends on TikTok, but if you say an unkind word about her he will smack you right into next week. That’s how we feel about New York.

Oddly inarticulate dumbos like Margerine Blather Green and Mike “Mother” Pence might better stay back in Walmart, or wherever they were born. Do they have schools out there? Or were those burned down when they were burning books? When you are ready to tell the truth about our crime rate and quit dog-whistling about all the Jews and blacks and queers we have here, maybe we’ll give you tickets to see “Wicked”. Right after that you can hit the Olive Garden and the M&Ms store – and then you have to leave.

“In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love,” said Tennyson. You’re welcome. Also, his fancy turns to thoughts of sex. The same applies to young women, of course, but Tennyson was obviously sexist. This also applies to pigeons, two of whom are currently making awkward, chaotic, scuffling, fluttering overtures toward one another and cooing softly on the scaffolding outside my apartment window right now.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: CRKSHNK, Below Key, Degrupo, Homesick, Calicho Art, Habibi, Le Crue, Lasak, Cloudy is Here, Gina Minichino, They It Forward, Channin Fulton, Dragon Fly, Gert Robijns, Jozzy Camacho, Nandos, Mini Mantis Art, and Pablo West.

Exactly. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Gina Minichino. And that’s for you MTG. It’s saying something that we New Yorkers have more sympathy for the fierce NYC rats than we have for you. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
DeGrupo. Noted. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Harold Hunter piece by DeGrupo (Hat tip to B. Neuman) (photo © Jaime Rojo)
They It Forward (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Calicho Art (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Below Key (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Assistant to Channin Fulton (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Channin Fulton (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Channin Fulton (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dragon Fly (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Gert Robijns (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Le Crue (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Habibi (photo © Jaime Rojo)
CrKShnK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Homesick (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jozzy Camacho (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Lasak (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Nandos (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Pablo West (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Cloudy is Here (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Spring 2023. NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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